Hey now, dont start falling for it. If you really think about it, this could be a big wedge set up between the lone developer and the big community. The big guys waving fat wallets and the little guys waving bug fixes. The self-healing nature of the OSS community probably wont let that happen, but it woulndt hurt to be wary because it seems like a weak link in the chain that holds it all together.
Sure we dont get paid, but we do love what we do. The whole satisfaction bit comes from the sense of accomplishement and contribution to a greater good.
Besides, there is a big demand for linux pro's out there and nobody can fill a gap in a big company doing serious migration like the lone developer.
If an office is serious about migrating, especially call centers, there has to be good software on the new desktops that can support VoIP phone networks. We are forced to use a broken implementation of Wine to get our phone software to work, and we are almost forced to go back to windows because of the proprietary phone network that isnt going anywhere.
Phone software is a must. If I had the skills I would write some myself but I wouldnt even know where to begin. We have to rely on one stupid piece of shit app that crashes consantly, and is barely functional, in order to log into the phone network. Whats worse, we are forced to pay for upgrades that contain only minor bug fixes. More often than not the bugfixes break other parst of the software, like the "LOGIN" button. Are there no open standards in place for removing the dependency on proprietary software for phones?
I have no real qualifications to speak of except to say that I could probably obtain today the majority of certs my company could throw at me from learning on my own.
Which isn't saying too much. What kind of company needs security the most? The company with the most computers to secure? Thats how I found my job. I sat back and thought about it one night, and it just clicked.
So Im being a bit vauge, but I'm trying to get you to think about it a little bit. School, internship, cubicle, blah. Jump out there and show someone that you are a bad ass and you will get noticed.
What kind of companies have the most computers connected to the web? The answer is at your fingertips and in front of your nose if you are reading this.
I mean geez - I hear so much about how hard it is to find a job in the IT field that is rewardingly educational and secure. My job didnt exactly fall into my lap, but it might as well have. There is a link right on the slashdot main page where you can find tech jobs in your area. My employer was actually listed there. The jobs are out there and they arent hard to find if you just sign up and cruise around the job networks like monster and yahoo. Hell, a search on google for "tech jobs" yields over ten million results.
Besides. Youre young, you got your health, what in the hell do you want with a job?
I can give anyone a realistic outlook on the problem, from Ground Zero...
Picture Massive Hosting Corporation X, leading entrepreneurialship throughout the company, with an order of X machines, all of which host dozens (hundreds? yes, get over it) of domains each. Everyone is promised X email, usually unlimited, untill someone like AOL blocks them, (us - ouch, my foot...)............
Stupid people register their stupid little domains and we get stupidly stupid passwords like *password* on our mail boxen, supplemented with canned email scripts for the user to choose from, depending on level of stupidity. Ergo, we are left with an effectively massive amount of technically legitmate, open, hax0rable mail relays that get abused as soon as the MX record propagates...
So now what? "Educate the General Public"? Yeah! Hahahahahaa... Until the price of broadband falls into finite pockets, we WILL NOT see an end to SPAM. Really though, for $9.95 a month, any idiot can open a domain up with mail on it and get a good share of the international mail scene...
well said, but most people seem to miss the whole point here.
in your post you are implying that what you want to do with your money and the hardware/software you buy is up to the individual. in a sense it is, but in when you really think about it, this whole proprietary IP crap we live with is a well oiled machine that perpetuates planned obsolescense.
we dont have control over our money anymore in this regard because we are growing precariously dependent on upgrades, hot-fixes, service packs, and contracts that can guarantee longevity of a product that is designed to fail and be replaced by a pricey successor.
open source is much the opposite, as it is in the nature of the very idea that simple, meaningful, and logical steps are taken in a protocol designed to perpetuate the improvement of a given product. with this model, one can take, for instance, a version of linux that is years old and apply patches (if one were so inclined) until it is virtually the latest and greatest of the bleeding edge open source world.
you just cant do that with proprietary software. it does not fit into their agenda, which is to sell said product by draining consumer pockets with crapware migrations, and drying our eyballs with rediculous marketing ploys in order to beat us into submission.
Yes Windows dominates the desktop, but for servers Linux is gaining a foothold.
Gaining a foothold? we have 9000 servers nation wide, and only about 400 of them are windows based. the rest run linux and freebsd. the tech support departments at all locations still need an equal number of windows support techs, even though MS only has a fraction of the machine numbers.
we do not fuck around. we dont use windows because it costs too much money and it is far too unstable for our mission critical business. the only place windows has in our environment is to appease customers who are inept at learning new things -customers who will never know anything better than sending reboot requests on a daily basis to a provider.
i personally hope microsoft dies in a pool of its own legal vomit for all the hell ive gone through just working around their OS.
i think you are missing a picture. the "rhetoric" you stereotype is something you have percieved for a reason.
RFID is yet another up and coming means of control by hardware vendors. it will be used for many good and bad things, but most importantly it will be used for controlling people and what they can do.
P2P, on the other hand, is used for sharing of information, not guarding it, regardless of what people might use it for. that in itself is describes the sheer nature of the P2P vs. RFID in your comparison.
granted P2P has a lot of growing to do before it is actually a truly viable and, well, admittable means of communication. RFID however seems to be headed in one direction and one direction only: towards the efforts of Big Money.
intersting how the article downplays that very idea. RFID will soon be everywhere, relatively unregulated. one can only assume that its boundaries will be pushed into the infringement of human rights, as many would believe that P2P does. they may both have legitimate usages, but to simply compare the two on such a level as you have done is an irrelevant point.
where a "diploma challenged" geek like me can get a kick ass job with a massive hosting company: UNIX II Support Engineer. the shit we pull off day to day is nothing short of miraculous
theyll be going through a shift change in Redmond soon, so we should have a good posting here on this one.
What has this world come to? I feel like I cant speak without getting sued for it, but Im going to anyway.
Excel Excel Excel, Hyundai Excel, Novell Excel, Microsoft Word Excel, The word "Excel", Excel-linux, Excel-latte, Excel-lente, Excel the Smell, Excel-Perfect, The Excel Shell, I Excel, You Excel, We all Sell Out for Excel.
Now the word should be completely meaningless. Makes me wonder how a judge can actually sit there with their eyes open in a case like this.
there are too many people paid or brainwashed by microsoft who frequently post on this site for me to even read the articles about microsoft. everyone knows microsft deserves to be dismantled.
seriously, i am sick of astroturf on slashdot. i grew up with this site and am really saddened to see that big companies just have their ways with the boards here. it used to not be like that.
its impossible to tell if someone here is genuine. one guy says he worked for word perfect and has the real scoop, while what seems to be a number of other people, mostly anonymous at that, are dismissing his claims without regard for the possibility of them being true. dismissing them with FUD kind of shit that really does remind me of some of the shit that flows from ballmers mouth himself.
i wouldnt put anything past microsoft, and you are a fool if you would. open your eyes or shut your mouths - dignity follows in either case.
our judicial system is a sick joke. it boils down to money and thats the only thing you need to know going into the courtroom. you can be completely innocent of an accusation but if you are broke you are as good as guilty. if you have a shitload of money, welcome to the land of the free.
all of you sociopathic pigs out there who sit here plugging away with your misleading posts can go fuck yourselves, and each other. you have no idea what it means to be human, no idea what it means to be free, and you truly have no idea what it means to be right.
the fact that i have shit "karma" on here should tell you enough about what kind of people really visit this site most these days. i work at a hosting center where we use linux linux linux, we have immaculate uptime, and we have a LARGE customer base, so SCREW YOU. you cant take it away from us and you cant make us use your CrapOS for Retards. your fucking spyware and your fucked up contracts with hardware manufacturers can go to hell.
and as for the rest of you who think im being a jerk, kiss my ass before i replace you with a shell script...
the behaviour registrars im reading about on here, which this new rule does not even address, is just as unethical as domain squatting, which the new rule does.
talk about asshats.
i mistyped a url earlier and wound up at some pricks site with a massive list of domains that looked like something that was generated in the depths of/dev/random.
people who legitimatly and appropriatly have claim to a domain should not be held back from profits because of squatters who have no business with, for example, yourname.com in their possession.
give it a couple weeks, and alot of those sites you really wanted might be up for grabs.
ethics and governance just do not cross paths in todays society no matter how you spin it.
What about all those warez sites with links to video game roms etc...? Nintendo wont go after them, no way. No money in it.
This use is
unauthorized, and we are writing to demand that you immediately cease and desist this infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights.
That sounds so silly. SO immature. Frivolous in every sense of the word. As far as that goes, suicidegirls.com should be able to sue Nintendo for electronic trespassing. What a waste of time and energy. There is so much wrong with this fucking planet and we live in country ruled by corporate lawyers with nothing else in mind but their own ass.
University of Washington research this March published a moderate estimate of 5.1% PCs running spyware.
This MUST be grossly inaccurate. The past few years of my life have been filled with installing broadband on spywayre-wormware ridden windows boxes. It seems like every-single-customer had no idea what spyware does, is, how they got it, or how to get rid of it. All they know is the "cable guy" is telling them that the Dell they spent $1000 on needs another $100 worth of work on it.
Horribly inaccurate. The ONLY machines I didnt see spyware on were the Macs, the other *nix'en, and, of course, the occasional new Dell PC that I had to help the customer unpack. Many of the PCs were so bogged down that just installing the USB driver for the cable modem was painful enough for me to blaitantly tell the customer that they NEED TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES, at least SOMEWHAT, before they can have the service. Glad I'm not in the field anymore...
Dont get me wrong, some people were cool enough for me to dig "the disc" out of my truck, but for the most part I would say a substantial amount of man hours is lost due to spyware and companies, even contractors for companies, should be entitled to recieve compensation from the creators and purchasers of spyware. I could legitimatly document hundreds of jobs where I had to sit down and fix the damn thing before it would pull an ip without broadcasting the customers user information to the whole internet. If I had to guess how much money I lost, as a contractor, due to this downtime, I would measure it in the tens of thousands.
I sincerely hope that Microsoft feels the pain of losing business to a better competitor over this issue soon. If this explosion is not their fault, then I don't know what is.
and dont be a dick. Theyre great, and I wish I could afford one ATM. Especially the 4x4 model;)
This is the price we pay for not commercializing and industrializing the most extreme of urban commuting."The Mobile Sidewalk" has only happened in the most technologically developed parts of the world like JAPAN and, um, Las Vegas.
Slashdot Mirror
Hey now, dont start falling for it. If you really think about it, this could be a big wedge set up between the lone developer and the big community. The big guys waving fat wallets and the little guys waving bug fixes. The self-healing nature of the OSS community probably wont let that happen, but it woulndt hurt to be wary because it seems like a weak link in the chain that holds it all together.
Sure we dont get paid, but we do love what we do. The whole satisfaction bit comes from the sense of accomplishement and contribution to a greater good.
Besides, there is a big demand for linux pro's out there and nobody can fill a gap in a big company doing serious migration like the lone developer.
Cheer up!
from the article: The owner may also change the direction and speed of the revolutions. At low speed, each floor takes an hour to revolve.
lets overclock it...
If an office is serious about migrating, especially call centers, there has to be good software on the new desktops that can support VoIP phone networks. We are forced to use a broken implementation of Wine to get our phone software to work, and we are almost forced to go back to windows because of the proprietary phone network that isnt going anywhere.
Phone software is a must. If I had the skills I would write some myself but I wouldnt even know where to begin. We have to rely on one stupid piece of shit app that crashes consantly, and is barely functional, in order to log into the phone network. Whats worse, we are forced to pay for upgrades that contain only minor bug fixes. More often than not the bugfixes break other parst of the software, like the "LOGIN" button. Are there no open standards in place for removing the dependency on proprietary software for phones?
I have no real qualifications to speak of except to say that I could probably obtain today the majority of certs my company could throw at me from learning on my own.
Which isn't saying too much. What kind of company needs security the most? The company with the most computers to secure? Thats how I found my job. I sat back and thought about it one night, and it just clicked.
So Im being a bit vauge, but I'm trying to get you to think about it a little bit. School, internship, cubicle, blah. Jump out there and show someone that you are a bad ass and you will get noticed.
What kind of companies have the most computers connected to the web? The answer is at your fingertips and in front of your nose if you are reading this.
I mean geez - I hear so much about how hard it is to find a job in the IT field that is rewardingly educational and secure. My job didnt exactly fall into my lap, but it might as well have. There is a link right on the slashdot main page where you can find tech jobs in your area. My employer was actually listed there. The jobs are out there and they arent hard to find if you just sign up and cruise around the job networks like monster and yahoo. Hell, a search on google for "tech jobs" yields over ten million results.
Besides. Youre young, you got your health, what in the hell do you want with a job?
I can give anyone a realistic outlook on the problem, from Ground Zero...
Picture Massive Hosting Corporation X, leading entrepreneurialship throughout the company, with an order of X machines, all of which host dozens (hundreds? yes, get over it) of domains each. Everyone is promised X email, usually unlimited, untill someone like AOL blocks them, (us - ouch, my foot...)............
Stupid people register their stupid little domains and we get stupidly stupid passwords like *password* on our mail boxen, supplemented with canned email scripts for the user to choose from, depending on level of stupidity. Ergo, we are left with an effectively massive amount of technically legitmate, open, hax0rable mail relays that get abused as soon as the MX record propagates...
So now what? "Educate the General Public"? Yeah! Hahahahahaa... Until the price of broadband falls into finite pockets, we WILL NOT see an end to SPAM. Really though, for $9.95 a month, any idiot can open a domain up with mail on it and get a good share of the international mail scene...
Now you know...
well said, but most people seem to miss the whole point here.
in your post you are implying that what you want to do with your money and the hardware/software you buy is up to the individual. in a sense it is, but in when you really think about it, this whole proprietary IP crap we live with is a well oiled machine that perpetuates planned obsolescense.
we dont have control over our money anymore in this regard because we are growing precariously dependent on upgrades, hot-fixes, service packs, and contracts that can guarantee longevity of a product that is designed to fail and be replaced by a pricey successor.
open source is much the opposite, as it is in the nature of the very idea that simple, meaningful, and logical steps are taken in a protocol designed to perpetuate the improvement of a given product. with this model, one can take, for instance, a version of linux that is years old and apply patches (if one were so inclined) until it is virtually the latest and greatest of the bleeding edge open source world.
you just cant do that with proprietary software. it does not fit into their agenda, which is to sell said product by draining consumer pockets with crapware migrations, and drying our eyballs with rediculous marketing ploys in order to beat us into submission.
Yes Windows dominates the desktop, but for servers Linux is gaining a foothold. Gaining a foothold? we have 9000 servers nation wide, and only about 400 of them are windows based. the rest run linux and freebsd. the tech support departments at all locations still need an equal number of windows support techs, even though MS only has a fraction of the machine numbers.
we do not fuck around. we dont use windows because it costs too much money and it is far too unstable for our mission critical business. the only place windows has in our environment is to appease customers who are inept at learning new things -customers who will never know anything better than sending reboot requests on a daily basis to a provider.
i personally hope microsoft dies in a pool of its own legal vomit for all the hell ive gone through just working around their OS.
i think you are missing a picture. the "rhetoric" you stereotype is something you have percieved for a reason.
RFID is yet another up and coming means of control by hardware vendors. it will be used for many good and bad things, but most importantly it will be used for controlling people and what they can do.
P2P, on the other hand, is used for sharing of information, not guarding it, regardless of what people might use it for. that in itself is describes the sheer nature of the P2P vs. RFID in your comparison.
granted P2P has a lot of growing to do before it is actually a truly viable and, well, admittable means of communication. RFID however seems to be headed in one direction and one direction only: towards the efforts of Big Money.
intersting how the article downplays that very idea. RFID will soon be everywhere, relatively unregulated. one can only assume that its boundaries will be pushed into the infringement of human rights, as many would believe that P2P does. they may both have legitimate usages, but to simply compare the two on such a level as you have done is an irrelevant point.
where a "diploma challenged" geek like me can get a kick ass job with a massive hosting company: UNIX II Support Engineer. the shit we pull off day to day is nothing short of miraculous
fwiw ICANN sUx0rZ.
you are putting words into my mouth.
theyll be going through a shift change in Redmond soon, so we should have a good posting here on this one.
What has this world come to? I feel like I cant speak without getting sued for it, but Im going to anyway.
Excel Excel Excel, Hyundai Excel, Novell Excel, Microsoft Word Excel, The word "Excel", Excel-linux, Excel-latte, Excel-lente, Excel the Smell, Excel-Perfect, The Excel Shell, I Excel, You Excel, We all Sell Out for Excel.
Now the word should be completely meaningless. Makes me wonder how a judge can actually sit there with their eyes open in a case like this.
this is all a load of horse shit.
there are too many people paid or brainwashed by microsoft who frequently post on this site for me to even read the articles about microsoft. everyone knows microsft deserves to be dismantled.
seriously, i am sick of astroturf on slashdot. i grew up with this site and am really saddened to see that big companies just have their ways with the boards here. it used to not be like that.
its impossible to tell if someone here is genuine. one guy says he worked for word perfect and has the real scoop, while what seems to be a number of other people, mostly anonymous at that, are dismissing his claims without regard for the possibility of them being true. dismissing them with FUD kind of shit that really does remind me of some of the shit that flows from ballmers mouth himself.
i wouldnt put anything past microsoft, and you are a fool if you would. open your eyes or shut your mouths - dignity follows in either case.
our judicial system is a sick joke. it boils down to money and thats the only thing you need to know going into the courtroom. you can be completely innocent of an accusation but if you are broke you are as good as guilty. if you have a shitload of money, welcome to the land of the free.
all of you sociopathic pigs out there who sit here plugging away with your misleading posts can go fuck yourselves, and each other. you have no idea what it means to be human, no idea what it means to be free, and you truly have no idea what it means to be right.
the fact that i have shit "karma" on here should tell you enough about what kind of people really visit this site most these days. i work at a hosting center where we use linux linux linux, we have immaculate uptime, and we have a LARGE customer base, so SCREW YOU. you cant take it away from us and you cant make us use your CrapOS for Retards. your fucking spyware and your fucked up contracts with hardware manufacturers can go to hell.
and as for the rest of you who think im being a jerk, kiss my ass before i replace you with a shell script...
you make money by indirectly funding it, stealing it, chopping it up, and putting it into new versions of windows.
but there is a reason for it.
/dev/random.
the behaviour registrars im reading about on here, which this new rule does not even address, is just as unethical as domain squatting, which the new rule does.
talk about asshats.
i mistyped a url earlier and wound up at some pricks site with a massive list of domains that looked like something that was generated in the depths of
people who legitimatly and appropriatly have claim to a domain should not be held back from profits because of squatters who have no business with, for example, yourname.com in their possession.
give it a couple weeks, and alot of those sites you really wanted might be up for grabs.
ethics and governance just do not cross paths in todays society no matter how you spin it.
What about all those warez sites with links to video game roms etc...? Nintendo wont go after them, no way. No money in it.
This use is unauthorized, and we are writing to demand that you immediately cease and desist this infringement of Nintendo's intellectual property rights.
That sounds so silly. SO immature. Frivolous in every sense of the word. As far as that goes, suicidegirls.com should be able to sue Nintendo for electronic trespassing. What a waste of time and energy. There is so much wrong with this fucking planet and we live in country ruled by corporate lawyers with nothing else in mind but their own ass.
they aren't really tiny - they are just very far away.
Fascinating article though. I can't wait to read more about it, the whole facial reconstruction thing and all.
Speaking of which, considering this evidence of hominids with brains so small, maybe Bush is, in fact, Human after all.
Vote for Kerry... please.
4 out of 5 PC's now run Linux...
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University of Washington research this March published a moderate estimate of 5.1% PCs running spyware.
This MUST be grossly inaccurate. The past few years of my life have been filled with installing broadband on spywayre-wormware ridden windows boxes. It seems like every-single-customer had no idea what spyware does, is, how they got it, or how to get rid of it. All they know is the "cable guy" is telling them that the Dell they spent $1000 on needs another $100 worth of work on it.
Horribly inaccurate. The ONLY machines I didnt see spyware on were the Macs, the other *nix'en, and, of course, the occasional new Dell PC that I had to help the customer unpack. Many of the PCs were so bogged down that just installing the USB driver for the cable modem was painful enough for me to blaitantly tell the customer that they NEED TO EDUCATE THEMSELVES, at least SOMEWHAT, before they can have the service. Glad I'm not in the field anymore...
Dont get me wrong, some people were cool enough for me to dig "the disc" out of my truck, but for the most part I would say a substantial amount of man hours is lost due to spyware and companies, even contractors for companies, should be entitled to recieve compensation from the creators and purchasers of spyware. I could legitimatly document hundreds of jobs where I had to sit down and fix the damn thing before it would pull an ip without broadcasting the customers user information to the whole internet. If I had to guess how much money I lost, as a contractor, due to this downtime, I would measure it in the tens of thousands.
I sincerely hope that Microsoft feels the pain of losing business to a better competitor over this issue soon. If this explosion is not their fault, then I don't know what is.
and dont be a dick. Theyre great, and I wish I could afford one ATM. Especially the 4x4 model ;)
This is the price we pay for not commercializing and industrializing the most extreme of urban commuting."The Mobile Sidewalk" has only happened in the most technologically developed parts of the world like JAPAN and, um, Las Vegas.
Long live the Segway, and its Right of Way.
--Period
A soon as I could see the API for EVERYTHING... gimme a fuckin break...
No wonder we kicked them out.
do it.
"Experiment participation is not solely reserved for Russian volunteers, institute officials added."
Also included will be non-volunteers.
Brings a whole new meaning to the term "The Red Planet".
root@sams.brain~# ls -l /proc/cerebrum/subconcious/ /dev/penis
lr-xr-xr-x 1 sam sam 9 0ct 23 1975 current_thought ->
how about 3 tons of Hustler Magazine...
Just imagine someone hard wired to the Net 24/7
its easy, theyre called "moderators" around these parts.