Firstly, admins digging and deleting your personal files, as some users have posted, have waaaaay to much time on their hands.
Secondly, has anyone heard of VMWare ESX? A developer can be root or whatever without affecting production or taking up too many resources. This is what we use.
Thirdly, why would a share not be backed up? Isn't the purpose of putting files on the server to reduce email bandwith and user administration? We have TSM go through and back up all the servers every night, with the shares holding a priority. Doing it any other way would be self-defeating for an IT department.
Fourthly, what is the problem with not having access to your own laptop? I can understand this for a secretary or intern, but a developer? When they leave the company, just reimage the drive! It's rather simple. Oh... they don't have laptops... man, I would hate to work there.
Why build another supercollider when there is one in Europe? What a waste of money!
Little Science could have a much grander impact. Here are some worthwhile projects the DOE could pursue:
1. Microbiology research for dissolving nuclear waste. 2. Fuel Cells 3. Engineering atoms/molecules using a small Linux cluster for the purpose of creating more lightweight, durable materials. The applications range from space travel to camping gear. 4. Building the proton computer and loading an older version of Slackware on it. By the time this is built, you won't want to put Windows on the computer, since the OS will be so bloated it would take too long to download a page with java applets.
RedHat is being short-sighted and alienating its developers and users. Many developers have put a lot of work and sweat and time away from family to make Linux user-friendly. I don't think they will want to work with a company that has scrambled their efforts with every release (i.e., Bluecurve) and then call Linux work unfinished and not as good as Windows.
In today's GUI world, without a solid desktop, you have no server. And there are many companies out there who are starting to consider or request Linux for clients and servers. Does it make sense to have Suse on the desktop and RedHat on servers? I don't think so. Administrators would be doing twice the work and managers twice the training.
Suse's Yast2 and KDE configuration is a perfect example of a successful desktop. A 90-year old grandpa would not buy a computer with Windows any more than he would program the VCR. But most people in the work place who go to the control panel in Windows before calling the help desk would not have a problem with Yast2.
The bottom line is that the GPL allows software to outlive the companies that created, compiled, or sold the software released under this license.
And once governments and businesses begin to receive and understand the benefits of the GPL, they will be more perceptive of those entities that threaten it.
You have a good point. However, those with Linux knowledge will have a head start. I have provided a personal experience to explain my point:
My boss recentley asked one of the network admins to install Linux on a laptop just for testing, as a possible consideration for a company-wide client.
I'm not in a technical position, but I got a call from this network admin asking me, "I just installed Linux, but I can't login to the administrator account, can you help me?"
I went over and found that he had "administrator" in the login field. I tried not to laugh and explained it was not good practice to log into the X window system as root. After he logged in as root despite my warning, he wanted help logging into an NT domain. I mounted a Windows share for him using the command-line, but he didn't understand why you could not select the domain when the user first logged in.
This guy is very competent at his job, but even with all the Linux GUI tools, Linux still takes a different mentality. Once you have the grasp of that, you do o.k., but for some administrators, the shift is not an easy one.
Being that Travelogia is "one of the fastest growing companies in North America", did you get routed to the correct call center in the correct state? Was there even a receptionist? And was this "Yeah this is Robert" guy the technical contact? If so, why didn't you get transferred to the legal department after you threatened to sue? What is their business model? Who is the CEO? And what's the ticker symbol, by the way?
It kinda makes me angry to think that they acutally expect me to believe them! And aside from that, I still would not care if what they said were true!
Tuesday and Wednesday, the Expedition 8 crew of Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri will spend brief periods of time in the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module, which is the location aboard the Station most shielded from higher levels of radiation.
Apparently, you cannot escape bad weather, even in space. Well, I sure hope they make it through o.k.
As for me, I doubt I'll see any Northern lights down here in Texas, but I hope someone takes pictures!
Looks like they decided to continue with the Fisher-Price Interface (TM).
Another thing missing in the screenshots is the recurrent little pop ups near the clock asking you to update. Also mising are the constant prompts asking you, "are you sure you want to do this?" and making you second-guess yourself at every turn.
Oh, and let's not forget Pascal's adding machine. Perhaps a cluster of these could really turn up the pressure cooker competition on those big mainframes.
Bochs is not too difficult to configure. To install, you can use the rpm files. There are also several example configuration files in the documentation.
The best part is that if you have friends or co-workers that use Bochs, you can share image files and configuration files, saving you the time of doing a full installation. Unused virtual disk space compresses really well on to a CD-ROM.
I think it's great this technology is advancing. People with Diatabetes, heart problems, etc. do not have it as tough, thanks to the ability to monitor their situation with smaller, more portable devices.
Perhaps Apple is not the best example. They did buy into apple, and I did post a link previously to an article showing how they settled by investing into Apple.
But this is not the point. The point is that it is apparent that a faulty assumption was made.
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Firstly, admins digging and deleting your personal files, as some users have posted, have waaaaay to much time on their hands.
Secondly, has anyone heard of VMWare ESX? A developer can be root or whatever without affecting production or taking up too many resources. This is what we use.
Thirdly, why would a share not be backed up? Isn't the purpose of putting files on the server to reduce email bandwith and user administration? We have TSM go through and back up all the servers every night, with the shares holding a priority. Doing it any other way would be self-defeating for an IT department.
Fourthly, what is the problem with not having access to your own laptop? I can understand this for a secretary or intern, but a developer? When they leave the company, just reimage the drive! It's rather simple. Oh... they don't have laptops... man, I would hate to work there.
The point is, those big, long-term expensive projects may not have the same impact as smaller, cheaper, short-term ones.
We may have to swallow some pride when collaborating with other countries on large, expensive projects, but it makes the most sense.
Why build another supercollider when there is one in Europe? What a waste of money!
Little Science could have a much grander impact. Here are some worthwhile projects the DOE could pursue:
1. Microbiology research for dissolving nuclear waste.
2. Fuel Cells
3. Engineering atoms/molecules using a small Linux cluster for the purpose of creating more lightweight, durable materials. The applications range from space travel to camping gear.
4. Building the proton computer and loading an older version of Slackware on it. By the time this is built, you won't want to put Windows on the computer, since the OS will be so bloated it would take too long to download a page with java applets.
Here's how:
Go to http://www.suse.com . Splurge $35 on Suse 9. Put the sticker on your windshield.
Install Suse 9. Keep your NTFS, as you can resize, mount and read/write without additional software. Log in to Suse. Type Alt+F2. Type "yast2".
That's all you need to configure hardware, software, networking, and windows shares.
RedHat is being short-sighted and alienating its developers and users. Many developers have put a lot of work and sweat and time away from family to make Linux user-friendly. I don't think they will want to work with a company that has scrambled their efforts with every release (i.e., Bluecurve) and then call Linux work unfinished and not as good as Windows.
In today's GUI world, without a solid desktop, you have no server. And there are many companies out there who are starting to consider or request Linux for clients and servers. Does it make sense to have Suse on the desktop and RedHat on servers? I don't think so. Administrators would be doing twice the work and managers twice the training.
Suse's Yast2 and KDE configuration is a perfect example of a successful desktop. A 90-year old grandpa would not buy a computer with Windows any more than he would program the VCR. But most people in the work place who go to the control panel in Windows before calling the help desk would not have a problem with Yast2.
The bottom line is that the GPL allows software to outlive the companies that created, compiled, or sold the software released under this license.
And once governments and businesses begin to receive and understand the benefits of the GPL, they will be more perceptive of those entities that threaten it.
I see what your saying, but most managers worth working for will see through the b.s. people put on their resumes.
You have a good point. However, those with Linux knowledge will have a head start. I have provided a personal experience to explain my point:
My boss recentley asked one of the network admins to install Linux on a laptop just for testing, as a possible consideration for a company-wide client.
I'm not in a technical position, but I got a call from this network admin asking me, "I just installed Linux, but I can't login to the administrator account, can you help me?"
I went over and found that he had "administrator" in the login field. I tried not to laugh and explained it was not good practice to log into the X window system as root. After he logged in as root despite my warning, he wanted help logging into an NT domain. I mounted a Windows share for him using the command-line, but he didn't understand why you could not select the domain when the user first logged in.
This guy is very competent at his job, but even with all the Linux GUI tools, Linux still takes a different mentality. Once you have the grasp of that, you do o.k., but for some administrators, the shift is not an easy one.
It's nice to have an unbiased opinion agree.
From a University of Texas CS instructor's web site:
The Transmission Control Protocol was first formally specified in December of 1974 by Vint Cerf, Yogen Dalal and Carl Sunshine.
The link can be found here:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/Early_D ays_Of_TCP/index.shtml
And supporting documentation will be found here:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/think/Early_D ays_Of_TCP/Annotated_Bibliography/index.shtml
Being that Travelogia is "one of the fastest growing companies in North America", did you get routed to the correct call center in the correct state? Was there even a receptionist? And was this "Yeah this is Robert" guy the technical contact? If so, why didn't you get transferred to the legal department after you threatened to sue? What is their business model? Who is the CEO? And what's the ticker symbol, by the way?
It kinda makes me angry to think that they acutally expect me to believe them! And aside from that, I still would not care if what they said were true!
Tuesday and Wednesday, the Expedition 8 crew of Commander Mike Foale and Flight Engineer Alexander Kaleri will spend brief periods of time in the aft end of the Zvezda Service Module, which is the location aboard the Station most shielded from higher levels of radiation.
Apparently, you cannot escape bad weather, even in space. Well, I sure hope they make it through o.k.
As for me, I doubt I'll see any Northern lights down here in Texas, but I hope someone takes pictures!
Stop perpetuating this wrong myth.
What myth? That you need extra cooling equipment to overclock a processor in this Texas heat?
Looks like they decided to continue with the Fisher-Price Interface (TM).
Another thing missing in the screenshots is the recurrent little pop ups near the clock asking you to update. Also mising are the constant prompts asking you, "are you sure you want to do this?" and making you second-guess yourself at every turn.
Oh, and let's not forget Pascal's adding machine. Perhaps a cluster of these could really turn up the pressure cooker competition on those big mainframes.
D) Smoke Signal Broadcasting: Chiftan.
Would the TCP/IP stack running on smoke be compatible with IP v. 6?
Now you can have multi-player pong LAN parties.
Bochs is not too difficult to configure. To install, you can use the rpm files. There are also several example configuration files in the documentation. The best part is that if you have friends or co-workers that use Bochs, you can share image files and configuration files, saving you the time of doing a full installation. Unused virtual disk space compresses really well on to a CD-ROM.
Your karma was actually karma-chameleon!
It's never too lat to try to increase your karma! :-)
If you live in Texas, however, you may need pack the AMD in dry ice or something. Or freon tubes sowed into the overalls, perhaps.
I think it's great this technology is advancing. People with Diatabetes, heart problems, etc. do not have it as tough, thanks to the ability to monitor their situation with smaller, more portable devices.
Perhaps Apple is not the best example. They did buy into apple, and I did post a link previously to an article showing how they settled by investing into Apple.
But this is not the point. The point is that it is apparent that a faulty assumption was made.
"Next you'll start in with "won't someone please think of the CHILDREN!!!!"
Yes, especially poor ones in Uganda!
Sorry, that link was bad. Here is the good link to the news archiving explaining that Microsoft and Apple put their "differences" behind them:
Clicka here for article!