I have this too, because besides the obvious advantages I also think this looks much more professional. There's nothing wrong with a resume with a hotmail account. But one where the creator obviously took the time to register his/her own domain is somewhat nicer, especially when you're applying for a CS position.
And besides, you never know if you start your own business someday. If you already have a nice domain name, so much the better,
And where would you learn such a languange? Right, you learn them abroad. Preferably from that beautiful slender sexy french girl or that hot petite chinese, who both love it when you talk linux.
So do what I did and do your majoring in another country. When you apply for jobs, your resume will really stand out. I sure wouldn't have gotten my current job if it wasn't for the time abroad. And since there is no way escaping the offshore experience, you can tell the recruiter bullshit like 'oh yeah, I really have experience working in a team with foreigners'. They love that.
We use Gaim to communicate with the offshore part of the team and I have to say I couldn't really miss it. But I did have to, since they didn't react to the changes that Yahoo required from clients. It took a looooong time (almost three months) for Gaim to get fixed. Although we use Yahoo's network, Yahoo's own Linux client doesn't run in Xinerama (multihead) mode. The last six weeks, an unofficial patch floated around which had its own problems but at least a connection was made. Only this week, a new release was done which solved all problems.
Maybe you don't, but I certainly do. Not everything of course, but in my experience there are a lot of people who look at and learn from the source code of a package, just for fun. They won't actively develop or even provide a little patch, but they look at the source nevertheless.
I've experienced this on several occasions, once when looking at Snort (an intrusion detection system) and more recently when looking at TOra (a database client). In both cases when I asked questions on the developer list, people replied who were not active developers but just had a go scrolling through the source to see what it was doing.
I still run Windows 2000 as a non-privileged user. But whenever apps act funny as a normal user, I go to administrator mode and hand out full control over the appropriate directory in \Program Files. That usually solves the problem.
Slightly off-topic, but maybe interesting nevertheless: if you're into old-school games then check out ScummVM and play Beneath A Steel Sky and LOTS of otherse.
I've been playing with the applet, and it seems that this quasi-moon will impact at jan. 4th, 2004! The funny thing is, I haven't heard anything on the news...
It would be great if they would include this laptop mode patch, like they did in 2.4. It really prolongs battery life on my laptop, not to mention that with quick spindown times (using hdparm) it kinda solves the heat problem on my Dell D600 laptop.
I think the only chance WP for Linux has is if Linux adoption on the desktop gains some serious momentum -- probably exactly what they are hedging their bets on.
I would turn it around. WP for Linux will give the Linux adoption on the desktop some serious momentum -- if it could read/write MS Word files flawlessly. That way, professionals will be able to run Linux and still be confident that editing a document won't introduce minor glitches.
If I need to install something that isn't packaged, I'll package it first. If I don't like the way a packager built an already existing package, I'll repackage it.
This is even more work than compiling from source, for which you'll type some commands. Not only do you have to compile, you also have to create a spec file and build a package from it, which is another couple of commands. Then delete the mess it makes while building the package. Again, some commands.
If there's no package, I compile and install in/opt, then add the software its bin directory to the $PATH if necessary. And if you type ls -l/opt, you can immediately see what software on your system is not packaged.
For my job, I have to commute at least 2 hours every day, so I use Festival to convert text to wav, which I burn on a CD. That way, when I'm fed up with news or music, I put on the CD and 'listen' to this new article which I saw online but didn't have the time to read.
Any others who do this as well? Any tips for better software for this purpose than Festival? It's not too bad, but it's not terrific either.
unlike some of the Linux man pages (in Debian, lots of man pages say stuff like: "this page is a placeholder; there is no documentation" or refer you to the GNU info docs)
I don't like the distinction between man and info, but the quality of the latter is astonishing. Pull open the info pages of gdb and you'll find so much information in there. Those people include every little detail but besides that, also high-level first-time user stuff like a gdb example session! So, for certain things, info absolutely beats man.
Slightly off-topic, but interesting nevertheless: a friend of mine got a job besides his study in the IT dept. of a hospital. First assignment: this hospital doesn't have laserprinters; calculate the savings per month when everyone's personal inktjet printer would be replaced by a handful of Xeroxes...
I don't have the figure handy, but my estimate is a figure with, oh, 6 digits.....
But my main point is that versioning information should not go with the file. It should be separate.
In theory, you're right. As said in another post, if an application needs to track changes in a visually attractive way, then the 'track changes' features of word processors could do a diff and show it in the same way. Of course, it'd have to be CVS (or other version control system) aware.
In practice it doesn't work that way. And it's not only MS who thinks this; OpenOffice also works this way. You could brutally work around this by telling people to use CVS, but that makes seeing the changes too difficult.
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I have this too, because besides the obvious advantages I also think this looks much more professional. There's nothing wrong with a resume with a hotmail account. But one where the creator obviously took the time to register his/her own domain is somewhat nicer, especially when you're applying for a CS position.
And besides, you never know if you start your own business someday. If you already have a nice domain name, so much the better,
3. language skills
And where would you learn such a languange? Right, you learn them abroad. Preferably from that beautiful slender sexy french girl or that hot petite chinese, who both love it when you talk linux.
So do what I did and do your majoring in another country. When you apply for jobs, your resume will really stand out. I sure wouldn't have gotten my current job if it wasn't for the time abroad. And since there is no way escaping the offshore experience, you can tell the recruiter bullshit like 'oh yeah, I really have experience working in a team with foreigners'. They love that.
I have to say I haven't had such a laugh since I ate two slices of spacecake and drunk a crate of beer.
Maybe you don't, but I certainly do. Not everything of course, but in my experience there are a lot of people who look at and learn from the source code of a package, just for fun. They won't actively develop or even provide a little patch, but they look at the source nevertheless.
I've experienced this on several occasions, once when looking at Snort (an intrusion detection system) and more recently when looking at TOra (a database client). In both cases when I asked questions on the developer list, people replied who were not active developers but just had a go scrolling through the source to see what it was doing.
For that particular app, it's not secure but at least for the rest I can keep running in pure user mode.
Good one... For "big" applications, there's often something online for it. But for most apps that would be too much of a hassle.
I still run Windows 2000 as a non-privileged user. But whenever apps act funny as a normal user, I go to administrator mode and hand out full control over the appropriate directory in \Program Files. That usually solves the problem.
Eh? Can somewone explany why is this scored +1 funny?
Slightly off-topic, but maybe interesting nevertheless: if you're into old-school games then check out ScummVM and play Beneath A Steel Sky and LOTS of otherse.
I've been playing with the applet, and it seems that this quasi-moon will impact at jan. 4th, 2004! The funny thing is, I haven't heard anything on the news...
It would be great if they would include this laptop mode patch, like they did in 2.4. It really prolongs battery life on my laptop, not to mention that with quick spindown times (using hdparm) it kinda solves the heat problem on my Dell D600 laptop.
I would turn it around. WP for Linux will give the Linux adoption on the desktop some serious momentum -- if it could read/write MS Word files flawlessly. That way, professionals will be able to run Linux and still be confident that editing a document won't introduce minor glitches.
This is even more work than compiling from source, for which you'll type some commands. Not only do you have to compile, you also have to create a spec file and build a package from it, which is another couple of commands. Then delete the mess it makes while building the package. Again, some commands.
If there's no package, I compile and install in /opt, then add the software its bin directory to the $PATH if necessary. And if you type ls -l /opt, you can immediately see what software on your system is not packaged.
I see they have custom kernels on their website; is it mandatory to use theirs? If so, is 2.6 among them?
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Here it is for Linux.
Any others who do this as well? Any tips for better software for this purpose than Festival? It's not too bad, but it's not terrific either.
I don't like the distinction between man and info, but the quality of the latter is astonishing. Pull open the info pages of gdb and you'll find so much information in there. Those people include every little detail but besides that, also high-level first-time user stuff like a gdb example session! So, for certain things, info absolutely beats man.
Well dead is a bit subjective in this case, but when I search on monsterboard.com, in my country:
- I get 6 hits for COBOL
- I get 175 hits for C++
- I get 446 hits for Java
So some things are DEFINITELY dying in terms of popularity (read: employability).I agree it's very good, however, the features you describe are pretty standard among IDEs. And then the question still remains.
Why don't you use Java?
I don't have the figure handy, but my estimate is a figure with, oh, 6 digits.....
In theory, you're right. As said in another post, if an application needs to track changes in a visually attractive way, then the 'track changes' features of word processors could do a diff and show it in the same way. Of course, it'd have to be CVS (or other version control system) aware.
In practice it doesn't work that way. And it's not only MS who thinks this; OpenOffice also works this way. You could brutally work around this by telling people to use CVS, but that makes seeing the changes too difficult.
OK point taken. A webdev-aware word processor could then look at the previous version and show the differences on screen.
I am surprised nobody has implemented that yet
Oracle iFS does this.