Aren't you already considered a geeek/nerd if you read the WWN ? So if you are female and read that publication shouldn't you be happy to find someone who can fix your computer when it breaks so that you can continue to read WWN ?
Well I used to watch it for music videos, but apparently they've stopped doing that for some reason. The only interesting thing I've seen on MTV in a long time is the clay fighting show Celebrity Death Match.
It sounded like regular MTV. I don't watch MTV for journalism and so I wasn't suprised at their lackluster performance. It's good to see at least some major media like CNN are getting better at reporting on the high-tech industry and the people who make it possible. But for my money/. is still the best media source out there.
I admit I am guilty of this crime, there has been many a time that I printed a tutorial from some online website. I guess my main reason would be that I didn't want to keep an open web browser and have to keep on flipping between a web browser and the whindow in which I was working. But my younger cousins don't seem to have any such problems. Maybe it's because I grew up with printed books, I think as time goes on the whole printing thing will stop.
I know that you are on the board of directors at VA Linux, what does your job entail ? Could you describe to us what a typical work day is work you ? (If there is such a thing as a typical work day).
I come to work do my job and go home, I don't have cable or a computer at home. And frankley I find it liberating, I don't need to stare at a computer screen for more than 60hr a week. I don't carry a pager because if I am not at home I don't want my job to find me. I understand that not everyone has that luxery and some people are on call 24/7 but I think if you look hard enough you will find that there a lot of ways to reduce the amount of technology you have to deal with. On a separate note I do belive that we need the current break neck speed of technology just to keep feeding everyone, with the advance of medcine the population is growing larger and larger but the planet isn't getting any bigger. So our only solution is to find out how we can get more out of our current land.
I think lately people have begun to realize that Perl and Sendmail and co are superior to their counterparts on NT so instead of learning Unix/Linux and actually getting the "real" thing they ask for an NT version. IMO this doesn't fix the problem it simply maskes it. You will still have all the problems you normally have with an NT mailer. Just because it's sendmail it doesn't mean that it will magically fix everything that's wrong with NT.
Perhapse they simply want to make sure everyone gets rid of the beta version once they release their full version. Or maybe I am just giving Corel too much credit here.
If he only went to somewhere like Thailand to do his dirty buisness. I just wonder about this guy, he sounds like he has a brain but then does the stupidest thing you can possibly think of. On the other hand I wonder how many times he has gotten away with this before.
Right they are a good source of energy for humans when we keep them inside the cell, they are just too reactive to be used as regular fuel. I was thinking in terms of nano devices outside the body in the environment where they could possibly interact with other molecules not in a controlled environment like inside the cell. I agree that instability as a source of power is not new but notice the controlled environment you need for nuclear power or any other highley instable compound.
If I remember correctly ATP is not the most stable of compounds. It usually loses a Phospor molecule and turns to ADP so I don't see it becoming a standard energey molecule outside of our bodies anytime soon. On the other hand glucose related molecules are a lot more stable and give you more energy. But the process of getting the energy out of the glucose is a lot more complicated than getting it out of ATP (see citric acid cycle in the body) so I would expect future research to move into that area.
I vaguely remember her saying in an articale she the worst lines of any job she ever did in Star Wars. Her favorite "I should have known that foul stench was yours..."
well I hope this fixes the AC problem, but I still think we need more moderators just because of the volume of posts that/. gets. As/. gets more an more press we can expect a larger number of newbies to post here. And for/.'s sake I hope this doesn't follow the same way that usenet went.
Am I the only one to be tired of hearing about script kiddies in the news ? I mean there are so many more interesting people doing constructive things with their time that I am amazed with the media's fascination with "crackers". I could understand if the person had found some new and obscure bug that no one else had noticed, ok that would be minor news but the fact that some script kiddie broke into a military site *again* is hardly new worthy. And the worst part of this whole thing is the image the computer industry gets from this, I don't know how many times I had friends who don't know anything about computers ask me if I can break into some computer site for them. Is anyone else tired of all these "cracker" stories ?
I agree they should at least have an editor look at the material before they publish it. If the editor of the Times magazine had done his/her job the articale wouldn't have been printed. But then again who wants to sit and read every random book and rate it ? hmm maybe someone should point them to the/. moderate system. It would be intersting to see a collection of authors moderate themselves.
1.Alan with the large amount of money being suddenly pumped into Linux and the media coverage do you ever wish back for the good old days when Linux was unknown to most people? 2. Do you think the lucrative jobs opening up for Linux developers will cause people to defect to the coporate world and hurt Linux as a whole ? 3. Do you see yourself still working on Linux 5 years from now ? What about other people on the Kernel mailing list ? And do you think the quality of the code people now write for Linux is still up to the standards of the old days ? 4. What are your thoughts on the Red Hat IPO ? 5. Who do you think is the most underrated contributor to the Linux movement ? finall thanks for taking the time to answer our questions.
You can almost feel the masses getting ready to buy everything that has to do with linux. I can see people registering badlinux.com goodlinux.com mylinux.com and any other *linux*.com/org/net. I just hope that quality of the site doesn't suffer. So far I think slashdot and liunx.com have stayed true to their own image but as more and more people become interested in liunx and signal to noise ratio increases this will become harder and harder to maintain.
I just moved from NJ to Santa Clara ( for those of you who aren't familiar with the area it's about 15 min away from Palo Alto) and I couldn't belive just how few women there are in this area. I used to laugh at people who imported their wife/girlfriend from some mail order bride catalogue but now I see that those guys are geniuses. There was another articale that said there were 5 men for every women in silicon valley. Oh well you have to find something to spend your $$$ on beside computers right ?
I fully agree, the best part in my opinon was that RH develope a bunch of applications that will run on both platforms. That would give it an edge in both markets.
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Aren't you already considered a geeek/nerd if you read the WWN ? So if you are female and read that publication shouldn't you be happy to find someone who can fix your computer when it breaks so that you can continue to read WWN ?
I can actually put the whole book on a single piece of paper. And to think of all the years I spent actually learning.
Well I used to watch it for music videos, but apparently they've stopped doing that for some reason. The only interesting thing I've seen on MTV in a long time is the clay fighting show Celebrity Death Match.
It sounded like regular MTV. I don't watch MTV for journalism and so I wasn't suprised at their lackluster performance. It's good to see at least some major media like CNN are getting better at reporting on the high-tech industry and the people who make it possible. But for my money /. is still the best media source out there.
What is your favorite game of all time ?
I admit I am guilty of this crime, there has been many a time that I printed a tutorial from some online website. I guess my main reason would be that I didn't want to keep an open web browser and have to keep on flipping between a web browser and the whindow in which I was working. But my younger cousins don't seem to have any such problems. Maybe it's because I grew up with printed books, I think as time goes on the whole printing thing will stop.
I know that you are on the board of directors at VA Linux, what does your job entail ? Could you describe to us what a typical work day is work you ? (If there is such a thing as a typical work day).
I come to work do my job and go home, I don't have cable or a computer at home. And frankley I find it liberating, I don't need to stare at a computer screen for more than 60hr a week. I don't carry a pager because if I am not at home I don't want my job to find me. I understand that not everyone has that luxery and some people are on call 24/7 but I think if you look hard enough you will find that there a lot of ways to reduce the amount of technology you have to deal with.
On a separate note I do belive that we need the current break neck speed of technology just to keep feeding everyone, with the advance of medcine the population is growing larger and larger but the planet isn't getting any bigger. So our only solution is to find out how we can get more out of our current land.
I think lately people have begun to realize that Perl and Sendmail and co are superior to their counterparts on NT so instead of learning Unix/Linux and actually getting the "real" thing they ask for an NT version. IMO this doesn't fix the problem it simply maskes it. You will still have all the problems you normally have with an NT mailer. Just because it's sendmail it doesn't mean that it will magically fix everything that's wrong with NT.
Just out of curiosity how did you find out about this ? Was this posted to CNN or some other web site ?
If you have ever seen Linux on Sparc you would agree. Slowaris cann't compare to Linux on Sparc. For more info on Sparc Linux check out this link
Perhapse they simply want to make sure everyone gets rid of the beta version once they release their full version. Or maybe I am just giving Corel too much credit here.
With the sucess of the open source movement do you ever wish back for the obscurity of the good old days ?
If he only went to somewhere like Thailand to do his dirty buisness. I just wonder about this guy, he sounds like he has a brain but then does the stupidest thing you can possibly think of. On the other hand I wonder how many times he has gotten away with this before.
It would be nice to have something like that for /. so that we can discuss issues that bother people without having to post off topic.
Right they are a good source of energy for humans when we keep them inside the cell, they are just too reactive to be used as regular fuel. I was thinking in terms of nano devices outside the body in the environment where they could possibly interact with other molecules not in a controlled environment like inside the cell. I agree that instability as a source of power is not new but notice the controlled environment you need for nuclear power or any other highley instable compound.
If I remember correctly ATP is not the most stable of compounds. It usually loses a Phospor molecule and turns to ADP so I don't see it becoming a standard energey molecule outside of our bodies anytime soon. On the other hand glucose related molecules are a lot more stable and give you more energy. But the process of getting the energy out of the glucose is a lot more complicated than getting it out of ATP (see citric acid cycle in the body) so I would expect future research to move into that area.
I vaguely remember her saying in an articale she the worst lines of any job she ever did in Star Wars. Her favorite "I should have known that foul stench was yours ..."
well I hope this fixes the AC problem, but I still think we need more moderators just because of the volume of posts that /. gets. As /. gets more an more press we can expect a larger number of newbies to post here. And for /.'s sake I hope this doesn't follow the same way that usenet went.
Am I the only one to be tired of hearing about script kiddies in the news ? I mean there are so many more interesting people doing constructive things with their time that I am amazed with the media's fascination with "crackers". I could understand if the person had found some new and obscure bug that no one else had noticed, ok that would be minor news but the fact that some script kiddie broke into a military site *again* is hardly new worthy. And the worst part of this whole thing is the image the computer industry gets from this, I don't know how many times I had friends who don't know anything about computers ask me if I can break into some computer site for them. Is anyone else tired of all these "cracker" stories ?
I agree they should at least have an editor look at the material before they publish it. If the editor of the Times magazine had done his/her job the articale wouldn't have been printed. But then again who wants to sit and read every random book and rate it ? hmm maybe someone should point them to the /. moderate system. It would be intersting to see a collection of authors moderate themselves.
1.Alan with the large amount of money being suddenly pumped into Linux and the media coverage do you ever wish back for the good old days when Linux was unknown to most people?
2. Do you think the lucrative jobs opening up for Linux developers will cause people to defect to the coporate world and hurt Linux as a whole ?
3. Do you see yourself still working on Linux 5 years from now ? What about other people on the Kernel mailing list ? And do you think the quality of the code people now write for Linux is still up to the standards of the old days ?
4. What are your thoughts on the Red Hat IPO ?
5. Who do you think is the most underrated contributor to the Linux movement ?
finall thanks for taking the time to answer our questions.
You can almost feel the masses getting ready to buy everything that has to do with linux. I can see people registering badlinux.com goodlinux.com
mylinux.com and any other *linux*.com/org/net. I just hope that quality of the site doesn't suffer. So far I think slashdot and liunx.com have stayed true to their own image but as more and more people become interested in liunx and signal to noise ratio increases this will become harder and harder to maintain.
I just moved from NJ to Santa Clara ( for those of you who aren't familiar with the area it's about 15 min away from Palo Alto) and I couldn't belive just how few women there are in this area. I used to laugh at people who imported their wife/girlfriend from some mail order bride catalogue but now I see that those guys are geniuses. There was another articale that said there were 5 men for every women in silicon valley. Oh well you have to find something to spend your $$$ on beside computers right ?
I fully agree, the best part in my opinon was that RH develope a bunch of applications that will run on both platforms. That would give it an edge in both markets.