Your paragraph sums it all up. Watching IBM more closely might have prevented the whole mess. And just because they deal in GNU/Linuxen doesn't mean they are nice guys.
I personally have no love for IBM regardless of the outcome of this issue. Any business that will build machines for any organization if the money is right has no business holding the power they do. I don't think I need to cite links for that one.
Those of you who complain about RMS's point of view regarding Linux need to see this film. I can understand why those of you who think he is envious of Linus would think so, but only if you haven't seen the film or had a couple beers with the guy.
So shut up. Quit putting words in his mouth. He has forgotten more about philosophy and technology that most of us will ever know.
My own freshman English intsructor took the liberty of setting up a {gasp} MSN message board for us. We could use {gasp} MSN's {poor} implementation of IRC in the room to laugh about the instructor, and each other, in class.
I read through the blog a bit and found that there are many pro's and con's that you will have to deal with, but ultimatly, depending on the type of teacher you are and how you gear interests towards people, it is a good idea. I remember that most of the people in this class, though only a couple of years ago, had no prior experience on the computer. This was their own way of being introduced to things like: typing.
"Oh Great", I can hear you say, but think of it like this: you allready have the right idea by trying to bring people together with machines {OS's} that seem to divide people, alienate them, or otherwise divert them from sociability. Whether your motivations or not I highly suggest you bog down a www.msn.com server with a whole chatroom and webboard for everyone to be able to interact through at _any_hour_of_the_day.
In the long run it will be well worth it because the first semester of bringing all of these things together is bound to be the hardest. By the time you get your syllabus down for next semester you will know what to do and not to do. Speaking of which...
1) Might want to keep the computers off when class starts.
2) Might want to conduct a quick survey to see how the class feels about it.
The class I remember was taught by the best instructor I've had so far. He kept us motivated enough to hit the webboard and chatroom at all hours even though the Admistration's choice of reading material was boring enough to knock out an elephant. At first I thought it was a crazy idea because of the lax network security around the campus, but in the end I'm sure his decision was only to improve on it. Oh, might want to check with the IT building and see if they can whip up a little php or something for you. It would only take a couple of the good ones a day or two for you to have a pretty and stable setup!
"You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill-affor".
Grow up. Some of us need just as much education to run the cable that you rely on, get paid less, and have alot more stress. My system has a 90% turnover rate, but I'm not going anywhere. Contracting to do that for various Multi-Service Organizations is a nightmare that is our waking lives, especially when our corporate office is so distanced from the labor aspect that they will sign any agreement that they can profit from.
Over worked and under paid? Join the club. Most of America does manual labor for 1/4th the wage of your yearly salary, and works harder, longer hours than anyone you probably know. The top 5 people I work with are about the boat, not the captain, and will do whatever it takes to keep us cruising. That is why we are still here. It isn't about the money, its about the game. Its about being reliable and sleeping well at night knowing that your motivations aren't built on greed. Its about looking at yourself in the mirror and being able to see in your own eyes that you aren't corrupt.
To those of you who find my stance entertaining enough to reply with cyinicism: you are the kind of trash I would fire in a heartbeat. Someone on here brought up cutbacks and evaluations, and that is what you should be thinking about. If your little 6 week stretch of waking up early and not having time to mow your lawn or wash your Volvo is too much to handle maybe you should try a different career like selling hot dogs.
Managerial crap aside, you have a good point. I was pissed too when my "promotion" turned out to be a cut in pay with more responsibility. Since I had the balls to tough it out I get to be the boss! Hah!
Jesus Christ I thought my outlook on Intel's building of 1,000,000,000 obsolete machines was bad.
You probably have a brain twice as capable as most of ours but you have no faith in the rest of us... our only faith relies on thinking like yours where we cannot express ourselves, but only act on that which shows us who we are.
"You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford" -some MOTD from my slak box the last time it fsck'ed itself when I thrashed it.
It must be human nature for some of us not to have question about the right choice here because if it isn't then I'm not human. I would like to think that those in charge of this place have been around long enough to know otherwise, but after my own experience with "authority" I have grounds to argue.
Now we are all looking at the face of the dragon. The only question is, "What to do next?".
We will continue to share our knowledge and skills with those around us for the better of the rest of us, and without question. There are some who would like to take advantage of the willing, and when the time comes for them to patent their life's ill-will we will be there to tell them "its allready being used, but thanks anyway - need a job?". Until then we are stuck in the middle of a battle that cannot be won in a court of law, but in a place where our domain originated: in our hearts.
The bottom line is about who wants to work for the good of our civilization, and who wants to work for "the man". In the simplest of terms: This is the rest of our lives, and what whe choose to do with is something we have to live with for the rest of humanity. Our only instict to survive should tell us about the future of the rest of the herd and not our own well being.
To me this isn't the best news. When 2007 rolls around they will have junked A BILLION computers. Thanks Intel. Like Halliburton hasn't done enough for the environment... Planned obsolescence should be a crime.
just find a roll of RG-11 and some fittings for it on ebay and run the cable to your house yourself. by the time they catch up to you, they will realize you have saved them alot of money.
trust me on this one, they wont sue you or anything. the most they will do is try to sell you a loaded digital box with roadrunner.
This is as close as we can get to NOT having AOL invade our lives to meet some wierd mutant in our area that shares the same interest... not that I've used either.
Of course some people are going to have bad things to say about this, but the fact of the matter is: if Apple can deliver content, why criticize. I can think of few other large scale ISPs and OEMs that can't do what this is promising without signing away your soul.
that window management is as efficient as the user. for example, customizeable hotkeys: i have bbconf filled with ctrl+alt's and shift+alt's to the point where its unuseable by anyone but me, which is the way I like my laptop to be.
even KDE can be efficient if you know what you're doing. it really is up to the user, and thats the beauty of having so much control over the OS. custom right click menus that let you browse the file system and open files with different editors depending on the output of "file" is just a.rc file away with window managers such as blackbox, hackedbox, openbox, windowmaker, icewm.. you name it. like I said, beauty.
if this guy likes evilwm, he should take a look at/usr/ports/x11-wm/ eh? oh wait, thats some BSD...
...that if nmap had the functionality of, say, ethereal, built in, we'd all have a really good tool to audit every machine from here to Mars. True though how *nix has all of these tools for dealing with I/O between processes, it would still be nice to have the single ULTIMATE security auditing/IDS/educational user interface that could do some learning of its own and ask for input on-the-fly from the user as to enhance its ability to guess OS's and count boxen behind NAT, among other things.
Or maybe I'll just add this post to my thinkgeek wishlist.
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Your paragraph sums it all up. Watching IBM more closely might have prevented the whole mess. And just because they deal in GNU/Linuxen doesn't mean they are nice guys.
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I personally have no love for IBM regardless of the outcome of this issue. Any business that will build machines for any organization if the money is right has no business holding the power they do. I don't think I need to cite links for that one.
~/usr/home/patent_infringement_and_copyright_viol
Those of you who complain about RMS's point of view regarding Linux need to see this film. I can understand why those of you who think he is envious of Linus would think so, but only if you haven't seen the film or had a couple beers with the guy.
So shut up. Quit putting words in his mouth. He has forgotten more about philosophy and technology that most of us will ever know.
... don't you think?
My own freshman English intsructor took the liberty of setting up a {gasp} MSN message board for us. We could use {gasp} MSN's {poor} implementation of IRC in the room to laugh about the instructor, and each other, in class.
I read through the blog a bit and found that there are many pro's and con's that you will have to deal with, but ultimatly, depending on the type of teacher you are and how you gear interests towards people, it is a good idea. I remember that most of the people in this class, though only a couple of years ago, had no prior experience on the computer. This was their own way of being introduced to things like: typing.
"Oh Great", I can hear you say, but think of it like this: you allready have the right idea by trying to bring people together with machines {OS's} that seem to divide people, alienate them, or otherwise divert them from sociability. Whether your motivations or not I highly suggest you bog down a www.msn.com server with a whole chatroom and webboard for everyone to be able to interact through at _any_hour_of_the_day.
In the long run it will be well worth it because the first semester of bringing all of these things together is bound to be the hardest. By the time you get your syllabus down for next semester you will know what to do and not to do. Speaking of which...
1) Might want to keep the computers off when class starts.
2) Might want to conduct a quick survey to see how the class feels about it.
The class I remember was taught by the best instructor I've had so far. He kept us motivated enough to hit the webboard and chatroom at all hours even though the Admistration's choice of reading material was boring enough to knock out an elephant. At first I thought it was a crazy idea because of the lax network security around the campus, but in the end I'm sure his decision was only to improve on it. Oh, might want to check with the IT building and see if they can whip up a little php or something for you. It would only take a couple of the good ones a day or two for you to have a pretty and stable setup!
"You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill-affor".
Grow up. Some of us need just as much education to run the cable that you rely on, get paid less, and have alot more stress. My system has a 90% turnover rate, but I'm not going anywhere. Contracting to do that for various Multi-Service Organizations is a nightmare that is our waking lives, especially when our corporate office is so distanced from the labor aspect that they will sign any agreement that they can profit from.
Over worked and under paid? Join the club. Most of America does manual labor for 1/4th the wage of your yearly salary, and works harder, longer hours than anyone you probably know. The top 5 people I work with are about the boat, not the captain, and will do whatever it takes to keep us cruising. That is why we are still here. It isn't about the money, its about the game. Its about being reliable and sleeping well at night knowing that your motivations aren't built on greed. Its about looking at yourself in the mirror and being able to see in your own eyes that you aren't corrupt.
To those of you who find my stance entertaining enough to reply with cyinicism: you are the kind of trash I would fire in a heartbeat. Someone on here brought up cutbacks and evaluations, and that is what you should be thinking about. If your little 6 week stretch of waking up early and not having time to mow your lawn or wash your Volvo is too much to handle maybe you should try a different career like selling hot dogs.
Managerial crap aside, you have a good point. I was pissed too when my "promotion" turned out to be a cut in pay with more responsibility. Since I had the balls to tough it out I get to be the boss! Hah!
Jesus Christ I thought my outlook on Intel's building of 1,000,000,000 obsolete machines was bad.
You probably have a brain twice as capable as most of ours but you have no faith in the rest of us... our only faith relies on thinking like yours where we cannot express ourselves, but only act on that which shows us who we are.
"You are about to give someone a piece of your mind, something which you can ill afford"
-some MOTD from my slak box the last time it fsck'ed itself when I thrashed it.
It must be human nature for some of us not to have question about the right choice here because if it isn't then I'm not human. I would like to think that those in charge of this place have been around long enough to know otherwise, but after my own experience with "authority" I have grounds to argue.
Now we are all looking at the face of the dragon. The only question is, "What to do next?".
We will continue to share our knowledge and skills with those around us for the better of the rest of us, and without question. There are some who would like to take advantage of the willing, and when the time comes for them to patent their life's ill-will we will be there to tell them "its allready being used, but thanks anyway - need a job?". Until then we are stuck in the middle of a battle that cannot be won in a court of law, but in a place where our domain originated: in our hearts.
The bottom line is about who wants to work for the good of our civilization, and who wants to work for "the man". In the simplest of terms: This is the rest of our lives, and what whe choose to do with is something we have to live with for the rest of humanity. Our only instict to survive should tell us about the future of the rest of the herd and not our own well being.
~/william
if I may humbly submit this just once, something I wrote as a "confused kid" long ago.
People, Believe It!
All in the name of progress! Where are we going to go when this place becomes so hot and toxic that only the people who made billions polluting it will afford the luxury of living here.
To me this isn't the best news. When 2007 rolls around they will have junked A BILLION computers. Thanks Intel. Like Halliburton hasn't done enough for the environment... Planned obsolescence should be a crime.
Who wants some free HBO??? $50 a pop, right now!*
*only in the north Texas area. Gas money not included.
just find a roll of RG-11 and some fittings for it on ebay and run the cable to your house yourself. by the time they catch up to you, they will realize you have saved them alot of money.
trust me on this one, they wont sue you or anything. the most they will do is try to sell you a loaded digital box with roadrunner.
or i could do it for you for $100.
On the other hand, genius does what it wants and talent will do what it can. In this case we are dealing with fruit trying to play Dr. Ruth.
This is as close as we can get to NOT having AOL invade our lives to meet some wierd mutant in our area that shares the same interest... not that I've used either.
Of course some people are going to have bad things to say about this, but the fact of the matter is: if Apple can deliver content, why criticize. I can think of few other large scale ISPs and OEMs that can't do what this is promising without signing away your soul.
This is Slashdot, not a democracy.
Boycott patents!
that window management is as efficient as the user. for example, customizeable hotkeys: i have bbconf filled with ctrl+alt's and shift+alt's to the point where its unuseable by anyone but me, which is the way I like my laptop to be.
.rc file away with window managers such as blackbox, hackedbox, openbox, windowmaker, icewm.. you name it. like I said, beauty.
/usr/ports/x11-wm/ eh? oh wait, thats some BSD...
even KDE can be efficient if you know what you're doing. it really is up to the user, and thats the beauty of having so much control over the OS. custom right click menus that let you browse the file system and open files with different editors depending on the output of "file" is just a
if this guy likes evilwm, he should take a look at
...that if nmap had the functionality of, say, ethereal, built in, we'd all have a really good tool to audit every machine from here to Mars. True though how *nix has all of these tools for dealing with I/O between processes, it would still be nice to have the single ULTIMATE security auditing/IDS/educational user interface that could do some learning of its own and ask for input on-the-fly from the user as to enhance its ability to guess OS's and count boxen behind NAT, among other things. Or maybe I'll just add this post to my thinkgeek wishlist.