Wow, even for/. Please never come work with me, any future successors of yours are gonna be confused as hell.
Even without knowing where you work, I'll pass.
The OP was about small/medium business, so your gaming consoles coupled with your corporate(ish) environment comment makes me think you are talking about your home.
Indeed I was, hence my comment about applying this 'to a corporate environment'.
so the 'learning' part will have to happen at some point
Yeah, at a logical point, not some reference to a TV show that the majority of your staff aren't going to understand...
You don't need to understand to memorise or retain the information required to use any such named machines, and as I said, in corporate use, I'd expect my staff to use the functional CNAMEs if they were easily confused. Then again, if they were easily confused by the name of something, I'd re-consider their position. "Hey Pete. Sorry, Jim. Sorry, Brian. Damn, what was your name again?" "Hannah." "Ah, gotcha."
Interesting... I've used Trek names internally for over 12 years with a simple nomenclature.
My own servers, desktops, laptops, phones, PDAs, etc get Federation starship names (e.g. "enterprise", "intrepid", "saratoga", etc).
Any kit belonging to my employer gets a Klingon starship name ("bortas", "amar", etc).
Routers, access points etc get named after ways they use to get around ("wormhole", "subspace", "graviton", "conduit", etc).
Games consoles use recreational names ("kadis-kot", "holodeck", "dabotable", etc).
Were I to apply this to a corporate(ish) environment, I'd simply CNAME the functional name on top of the system name for servers etc, and have that functional name appear in the motd (where relevant).
Once you get your head round "OK, this is a particular naming scheme", figuring out which 'spaceship' you need to log into is trivial. You're going to have to remember any other naming scheme with something like smtp-05-ord.us.example.com anyway, so the 'learning' part will have to happen at some point...
The source is being opened, not Open Sourced. Note the use of lower case which to me differentiates from previously closed source being opened to public scrutiny and made available under some licence, and previously closed source being made Open Source under the definition of Open Source.
Wow, surprised no-one's mentioned Ace Combat yet, specifically Aces 4 through 6, X and Zero, all featuring some stunning orchestral compositions from the likes of Keiki Kobayashi and Tetsukazu Nakanishi.
They could have tested this on the ground, but then again the/. editors could have checked that this news story hadn't already been posted about. I mean cut them some slack, they're only human.
More likely, that $500/hr rate is a billed-out rate, which us consumers / plebs / potential litigants pay. Unless it's their own practice (let's say it's not), a portion of that will return to the lawyer as salary (... pfff, about $75-100/hr, he said sticking a finger in the air and guessing), with the rest going to the law firm itself to pay for legal pads, crayons, mind control devices and dinner parties for the partners.
The law firm would in theory lose $500/hr for each potentially billable hour the theoretical lawyer stood in line waiting for a PS3, but then again, if he just walked out to a video game store, or flew to Akihabara on a whim without telling anyone, he'd more than likely be fired for gross misconduct. If on requested leave to stand in the Tokyo rain and get shouted at by megaphone-wielding Bic employees, that law firm would have used another member of staff to take his place while he was away to still make their $500/hr, and the lawyer would still be earning his $75-100/hr since he would be on paid leave.
After I have spend a few hundred hours tweaking a mail server that will have to deliver 100,000 messages per day, or a web farm that has to work FLAWLESSLY and serve hundreds of millions of hits per month, this one thing that I would not want to have to deal with, especially when I have to add/change a network interface to accomodate a SAN development or some other change where we don't have time to worry about such nonsensical shit as "Will the OS allow us to do this"
If you're using a desktop operating system such as Vista to serve 100K emails and > 100m web hits, you need your head examined. There's no indication that this refers to Longhorn Server.
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Innovative? Intelligence? Pah. Microsoft were a box-shifter in the early 1980s, punting BASIC and Multiplan to any and all who would license it. "Hey, Radio Shack are about to release another crappy 8-bit computer without a programming language, we can sell BASIC for it! Hurrah! Next stop, the Commodore C128!" Windows was far from innovative at release, and Microsoft's dedicated R&D department wasn't created until 1991.
Google have constantly innovated, while Microsoft have consistently stood in the shadow of greater technology giants, pen and paper ready to take notes. MS may have financial muscle and market presence, but that surely shouldn't be the end-point of a career decision?
Presumably Sony could ship firmware updates on Official PlayStation Magazine cover discs for those not wanting to put their PS3 online, else consumers (at least in the UK) could return their box as not being fit for purpose if an out-the-box update was required to make it usable.
Planned obsolescence... that's a bit like linking to Yahoo! News; the story can also be permanently read at Reuters for posterity's sake. Think of the slashdot grandchildren!
This is obviously a tragedy for his family, friends, colleagues and a complete shock to everyone who has heard of him, but once the dust has settled, it will be interesting to see how PDPC and Freenode will continue to be run.
Err, Billg and co owe more to implementing BASIC on every late-1970s platform, ever, and later selling a CP/M clone to IBM and then to every reverse-engineered-PC-BIOS firm in the world, than they do to any of Xerox's crown jewels pinched from PARC.
It was their dominance in the BASIC, DOS and DOS application fields which built the Microsoft empire, and without them the Windows product line wouldn't exist; Windows wasn't even worth using and thus commercially viable until Windows 3.0 in 1990 - fifteen years after the company was founded, seven years after the product was announced, five years after Windows 1.0 was released and the same year Microsoft's collaboration with IBM on OS/2 fell apart.
If anyone's to blame for looting GUI and WIMP technology from PARC (which had past precedent with Englebart, et al), it's Steve Jobs, who did a better job of commercialising the technology than Xerox ever did.
This isn't a user group meeting, this is both well-known and not-so well-known Linux and Free/Open Source Software people giving talks to gathered audiences, along with a community of podcast listeners getting together to enjoy a weekend of chat, beer and events. Is there really a need to be sarcastic?
I think the primary concern is, what happens to a distro like MEPIS? Do they need to retain a full and publically available source repository for every package in Ubuntu? That could be an administrative and financial drain.
If an upstream distro has to keep their sources available for all revisions of all packages for three years, surely all a downstream distro has to do is refer to those sources for untainted packages? Is this good enough for the FSF, or are they just going to turn into the bully of the FOSS community?
Interesting, this probably means the BBC are simulcasting Radio 1 in MP3 instead of "we know the casual user can't rip this" Real or WMA streams. Tut tut.
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The danger for users of porn is clear and present.
You forgot All Your Base.
Techcrunch reckons this is bullshit meant to drive traffic. I'm inclined to agree.
Wow, even for /. Please never come work with me, any future successors of yours are gonna be confused as hell.
Even without knowing where you work, I'll pass.
The OP was about small/medium business, so your gaming consoles coupled with your corporate(ish) environment comment makes me think you are talking about your home.
Indeed I was, hence my comment about applying this 'to a corporate environment'.
so the 'learning' part will have to happen at some point Yeah, at a logical point, not some reference to a TV show that the majority of your staff aren't going to understand...
You don't need to understand to memorise or retain the information required to use any such named machines, and as I said, in corporate use, I'd expect my staff to use the functional CNAMEs if they were easily confused. Then again, if they were easily confused by the name of something, I'd re-consider their position. "Hey Pete. Sorry, Jim. Sorry, Brian. Damn, what was your name again?" "Hannah." "Ah, gotcha."
Interesting ... I've used Trek names internally for over 12 years with a simple nomenclature.
My own servers, desktops, laptops, phones, PDAs, etc get Federation starship names (e.g. "enterprise", "intrepid", "saratoga", etc).
Any kit belonging to my employer gets a Klingon starship name ("bortas", "amar", etc).
Routers, access points etc get named after ways they use to get around ("wormhole", "subspace", "graviton", "conduit", etc).
Games consoles use recreational names ("kadis-kot", "holodeck", "dabotable", etc).
Were I to apply this to a corporate(ish) environment, I'd simply CNAME the functional name on top of the system name for servers etc, and have that functional name appear in the motd (where relevant).
Once you get your head round "OK, this is a particular naming scheme", figuring out which 'spaceship' you need to log into is trivial. You're going to have to remember any other naming scheme with something like smtp-05-ord.us.example.com anyway, so the 'learning' part will have to happen at some point ...
The source is being opened, not Open Sourced. Note the use of lower case which to me differentiates from previously closed source being opened to public scrutiny and made available under some licence, and previously closed source being made Open Source under the definition of Open Source.
Wow, surprised no-one's mentioned Ace Combat yet, specifically Aces 4 through 6, X and Zero, all featuring some stunning orchestral compositions from the likes of Keiki Kobayashi and Tetsukazu Nakanishi.
It is.
Kinda demonstrates the case for p2p file transfers, huh.
My Briefcase in Windows 95. It even has a cute ickle briefcase icon.
Somewhat seriously, Offline Files in Win2K/XP is something I've yet to see done well on any other OS.
That's what everybody else calls it.
They could have tested this on the ground, but then again the /. editors could have checked that this news story hadn't already been posted about. I mean cut them some slack, they're only human.
More likely, that $500/hr rate is a billed-out rate, which us consumers / plebs / potential litigants pay. Unless it's their own practice (let's say it's not), a portion of that will return to the lawyer as salary (... pfff, about $75-100/hr, he said sticking a finger in the air and guessing), with the rest going to the law firm itself to pay for legal pads, crayons, mind control devices and dinner parties for the partners.
The law firm would in theory lose $500/hr for each potentially billable hour the theoretical lawyer stood in line waiting for a PS3, but then again, if he just walked out to a video game store, or flew to Akihabara on a whim without telling anyone, he'd more than likely be fired for gross misconduct. If on requested leave to stand in the Tokyo rain and get shouted at by megaphone-wielding Bic employees, that law firm would have used another member of staff to take his place while he was away to still make their $500/hr, and the lawyer would still be earning his $75-100/hr since he would be on paid leave.
... I thought about this too much, didn't I?
If you're using a desktop operating system such as Vista to serve 100K emails and > 100m web hits, you need your head examined. There's no indication that this refers to Longhorn Server.
Innovative? Intelligence? Pah. Microsoft were a box-shifter in the early 1980s, punting BASIC and Multiplan to any and all who would license it. "Hey, Radio Shack are about to release another crappy 8-bit computer without a programming language, we can sell BASIC for it! Hurrah! Next stop, the Commodore C128!" Windows was far from innovative at release, and Microsoft's dedicated R&D department wasn't created until 1991.
Google have constantly innovated, while Microsoft have consistently stood in the shadow of greater technology giants, pen and paper ready to take notes. MS may have financial muscle and market presence, but that surely shouldn't be the end-point of a career decision?
Presumably Sony could ship firmware updates on Official PlayStation Magazine cover discs for those not wanting to put their PS3 online, else consumers (at least in the UK) could return their box as not being fit for purpose if an out-the-box update was required to make it usable.
Planned obsolescence ... that's a bit like linking to Yahoo! News; the story can also be permanently read at Reuters for posterity's sake. Think of the slashdot grandchildren!
Yeah, in retrospect, that subject wasn't very tactful.
This is obviously a tragedy for his family, friends, colleagues and a complete shock to everyone who has heard of him, but once the dust has settled, it will be interesting to see how PDPC and Freenode will continue to be run.
Err, Billg and co owe more to implementing BASIC on every late-1970s platform, ever, and later selling a CP/M clone to IBM and then to every reverse-engineered-PC-BIOS firm in the world, than they do to any of Xerox's crown jewels pinched from PARC.
It was their dominance in the BASIC, DOS and DOS application fields which built the Microsoft empire, and without them the Windows product line wouldn't exist; Windows wasn't even worth using and thus commercially viable until Windows 3.0 in 1990 - fifteen years after the company was founded, seven years after the product was announced, five years after Windows 1.0 was released and the same year Microsoft's collaboration with IBM on OS/2 fell apart.
If anyone's to blame for looting GUI and WIMP technology from PARC (which had past precedent with Englebart, et al), it's Steve Jobs, who did a better job of commercialising the technology than Xerox ever did.
Err, it probably involved swabbing a tongue, not taking a blood sample. Not every DNA sample is invasive to the point of breaking skin.
get in quick, less than a week to go!
This isn't a user group meeting, this is both well-known and not-so well-known Linux and Free/Open Source Software people giving talks to gathered audiences, along with a community of podcast listeners getting together to enjoy a weekend of chat, beer and events. Is there really a need to be sarcastic?
I think the primary concern is, what happens to a distro like MEPIS? Do they need to retain a full and publically available source repository for every package in Ubuntu? That could be an administrative and financial drain.
If an upstream distro has to keep their sources available for all revisions of all packages for three years, surely all a downstream distro has to do is refer to those sources for untainted packages? Is this good enough for the FSF, or are they just going to turn into the bully of the FOSS community?
Interesting, this probably means the BBC are simulcasting Radio 1 in MP3 instead of "we know the casual user can't rip this" Real or WMA streams. Tut tut.