I too have 3 cats. I bought a roomba. It couldn't keep up. I spent more time cleaning the roomba then I would have vacuuming by hand.
I bought at Dyson Animal the other month. It is pretty amazing. It is actually disgusting how much crap it picks up. I got it for $450 from amazon (they were having a Friday special). It also has a little attachment for pet hair. It works pretty well.
In a second letter between Red Hat and SCO, dated today and written by SCO chief executive Darl McBride to Red Hat's Szulik, McBride expressed surprise that Red Hat had chosen to sue. "I must say that your decision to file legal action does not seem conducive to the long-term survivability of Linux," McBride wrote.
This coming from the company who has zero interest in the long term survivability of Linux...
Well, like I stated in an earlier message, I am one of the unfortunates who this affects. My company is extremely sensetive to IP issues right now because they are already involved in a lawsuit involving IP.
What gets me, however, is that the lawsuit filed by SCO doesn't talk about the same code being anywhere. It talks about technologies that IBM and its subsideraries developed for "UNIX" systems.
Correct if I am wrong, but the whole suit is about the original license from ATT that states that they own all derivative works of UNIX.
Yep, well you are lucky one. It cracks me up to see all these posters talking about how this lawsuit doesn't matter. It is affecting the adoption of Linux. I was bringing these boxes in as low cost alternatives to Solaris and Sparc. Now, they are being converted to W2K. Wish I had decided to force them to spend more money!:)
Funny thing is that legal hasn't said a word about the fact that we are running AIX boxes everywhere. That point really puzzles me, since they are the ones that SCO is going after! Oh well, it is a funny world that we live in.
Yes, I agree that BSD whatever is a viable solution. However, Linux is a supported solution by many corporations. With Dell and Oracle presesnting RH Linux and 9i RAC as their preferred solution, there is much more support for Linux over BSD varients.
Besides, Sontag and McBride have already said that BSDs may be another target. And the second that they say "may", companies wary of lawsuits (such as mine) are going to stay away.
Thank you. That is exactly what has happened at my company. My linux servers (which were soon going into production) are being formated with W2K as we speak.
Yes, I can see that point. However, I have had serveral classes with people in my area. Plus, I have had a good working relationship with my professors. Obviously, it is not like getting a degree at Harvard or something along those lines. Though usually those people are already networked by their parents as infants...:)
Duke has a an executive MBA course. However, it runs along the lines of 100k. Plus, you need to have 10 years of executive experience. I question the need for a course like that.:)
Well, you obviously have to have good communication skills in order to participate. If you can not write intelligently and effectively communicate, you probably won't do as well. Plus, I had 3 communication classes as a undergrad and just finished a Dale Carnegie class.
I am currently getting my MBA through an online program with an acreditted school. I think that a lot of it depends on the professor, just like any normal classroom setting. I have had some professors that have been really into it. And others not so much so.
For example, my last class was a law and ethics class. I probably spent 20 - 25 hours a week working on my papers for that class. However, I was greatly appreciative of my professor of that class because he provided me with detailed homework assignments. In addition, when I got feedback from him, it was on the order of 3 pages long. However, my class before that was not as good. The professor in that class would just give me a grade and not tell me why I received that particular grade. However, all the of the professors that I have had have been very open about communication. In fact, my current accounting professor and I have talked every weekend since the class has started.
Maybe some schools take it seriously and others don't? But, I can tell that I am working my butt off. I haven't had a whole lot of slack time.
You are seriously misguided if you think the real usefulness of Java is applets. The most prevalent useage of Java is on the server for enterprise level applications and development tools. This is not something you will ever use PHP for.
While you are correct about the power usage of Java, I believe that you are wrong about php. Yahoo has stated that they are going to start migrating to php. I can't think of anyplace else to describe enterprise web apps that would be bigger than Yahoo.
Oh, I understand that... However, I believe that the original post was addressing his opinion that DNS in of itself is not mission critical. Sorry, but it is. Smart people may be able to get around it using IP addresses, but 99.999% of people out there would not know what to do when it crashes.
DNS is mission critical. We run an enterprise ebusiness in the transportation industry. Two days ago, ATT, our dns provider, had some serious issues with their dns (DDOS). People couldn't get to our website unless they had data cached. It cost us business.
Not that I care about Lance Bass or anything, but to blame the failures of ISS on him is just plain stupid. How about blaming them on dealing with a government that can not afford to pay their own bills. The only reason Tito and others had a chance of getting in space was because the russian government has issues. Or blaming the american who decided that it would be a good idea to "partner" with the russians.
My MBA had a case study on the motorcycle industry. It got to the point where HD had lobbied the feds to raise tarrifs on Japanese bikes because they couldn't compete. Also, the Japanese were stockpiling their bike getting ready to flood the market.
Essentially, if it weren't for the government, HD would not exist today.
I thought it was a little funny that they were releasing "handwritten notes by the likes of Martin Luther".
How much time in energy did they spend trying to shut him up?
I had a conference about storage with our Dell rep last week. He noticed that I had just bought a Toshiba e740. He told me to save my reciept because they are going to be price cutting everyone. The price he quoted me was $250... Now, he may just be blowing smoke up my ass, because he is a salesman after all. FYI...
I agree that it is more toy than tool. However, I believe that it is a wave of the future. Devices like this are going to become more common place. I think a lot of my issues come from having the cats.
It probably takes more time to clean everything out etc... But, it is a neat feeling to just push a button, leave, and come back, and the floor is clean...;)
By the way... 2 of my cats just follow the thing around wondering what the hell it is... Whating them try and figure the thing out is pure entertainment... You probably have to be a cat person to enjoy that...;)
I just bought one last weekend. It is pretty slick. It does what it claims to do. You can just let it go and return later and your room is clean. I have 3 cats and the amount of cat hair it picks up is pretty amazing.
It manuevers around and under everything that is over 6" high. So, it can deal with coffee tables, chairs, beds, etc. It detects stairs and avoids them. It comes with a virtual wall unit (you can buy more), that sends out a signal the roomba won't cross. When I first got it, I put it is my main room. It has a TV, a large L shaped couch, and 2 litter boxes. The room is 20x10. I eat in front of the tv, so you can imagine all that crap. I ran it in there, and I was amazed at all the stuff if picked up.
There are a few caveats, however. Battery life. You can only do "3 medium size rooms". My carpet is pretty thick, however. It is closer to 2 rooms. Plus, the time to charge the battery is 12 hours. You can buy spare batteries and a "quick charger", however, they are $60 bucks apiece. It is designed to do one room at a time, so you just can't put it up on the second floor and let it do everything. You have to put it into a room, close the door, and let it rip. It is not designed as a spot cleaner. If you have one really messy part of the room, you are better off getting your regular vacuum and vacumming that part of the room and then putting the roomba to work. The dirt collector is pretty small, so you have to empty it out after every room. Also, because of all the cat hair, I spend a lot of time cleaning the brushes and making sure the machine is clean. Unfortunately, it does not map out the room, so it may go over some areas that are not as high traffic as others, due to the algorithm that is uses.
My girlfriend thought I was nuts for buying it. However, for $200 bucks, (the price a of a decent vacuum) it is pretty cool. Now, only if it would travel stairs, do multiple rooms, have a larger dirt container, and plug itself back in, it would be near perfect
Hmm.. I don't recall ours doing that... But, maybe it is just I am never interested in the sports that they are showing..:D However, we do have a local "sports" station. So,... that may be the reason.
However, I seriously doubt that anyone will preempt it for anything except war with as much buildup and advertising they are doing. Unless that that is just in my area.
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I think that you mean mid 1995... However, they may have come out about an year earlier... My memory is failling me right now..
I bought at Dyson Animal the other month. It is pretty amazing. It is actually disgusting how much crap it picks up. I got it for $450 from amazon (they were having a Friday special). It also has a little attachment for pet hair. It works pretty well.
This coming from the company who has zero interest in the long term survivability of Linux...
What gets me, however, is that the lawsuit filed by SCO doesn't talk about the same code being anywhere. It talks about technologies that IBM and its subsideraries developed for "UNIX" systems.
Correct if I am wrong, but the whole suit is about the original license from ATT that states that they own all derivative works of UNIX.
Everything else is just a red herring.
Yep, well you are lucky one. It cracks me up to see all these posters talking about how this lawsuit doesn't matter. It is affecting the adoption of Linux. I was bringing these boxes in as low cost alternatives to Solaris and Sparc. Now, they are being converted to W2K. Wish I had decided to force them to spend more money! :)
Funny thing is that legal hasn't said a word about the fact that we are running AIX boxes everywhere. That point really puzzles me, since they are the ones that SCO is going after! Oh well, it is a funny world that we live in.
Yes, I agree that BSD whatever is a viable solution. However, Linux is a supported solution by many corporations. With Dell and Oracle presesnting RH Linux and 9i RAC as their preferred solution, there is much more support for Linux over BSD varients. Besides, Sontag and McBride have already said that BSDs may be another target. And the second that they say "may", companies wary of lawsuits (such as mine) are going to stay away.
Thank you. That is exactly what has happened at my company. My linux servers (which were soon going into production) are being formated with W2K as we speak.
Yes, I can see that point. However, I have had serveral classes with people in my area. Plus, I have had a good working relationship with my professors. Obviously, it is not like getting a degree at Harvard or something along those lines. Though usually those people are already networked by their parents as infants... :)
Duke has a an executive MBA course. However, it runs along the lines of 100k. Plus, you need to have 10 years of executive experience. I question the need for a course like that. :)
Well, you obviously have to have good communication skills in order to participate. If you can not write intelligently and effectively communicate, you probably won't do as well. Plus, I had 3 communication classes as a undergrad and just finished a Dale Carnegie class.
For example, my last class was a law and ethics class. I probably spent 20 - 25 hours a week working on my papers for that class. However, I was greatly appreciative of my professor of that class because he provided me with detailed homework assignments. In addition, when I got feedback from him, it was on the order of 3 pages long. However, my class before that was not as good. The professor in that class would just give me a grade and not tell me why I received that particular grade. However, all the of the professors that I have had have been very open about communication. In fact, my current accounting professor and I have talked every weekend since the class has started.
Maybe some schools take it seriously and others don't? But, I can tell that I am working my butt off. I haven't had a whole lot of slack time.
While you are correct about the power usage of Java, I believe that you are wrong about php. Yahoo has stated that they are going to start migrating to php. I can't think of anyplace else to describe enterprise web apps that would be bigger than Yahoo.
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Oh, I understand that... However, I believe that the original post was addressing his opinion that DNS in of itself is not mission critical. Sorry, but it is. Smart people may be able to get around it using IP addresses, but 99.999% of people out there would not know what to do when it crashes.
DNS is mission critical. We run an enterprise ebusiness in the transportation industry. Two days ago, ATT, our dns provider, had some serious issues with their dns (DDOS). People couldn't get to our website unless they had data cached. It cost us business.
Didn't AOL buy Time Warner?? Shouldn't they be dictating what is going on? I realize the TW is probably the more stable company, but ...
I see dead people.
Not that I care about Lance Bass or anything, but to blame the failures of ISS on him is just plain stupid. How about blaming them on dealing with a government that can not afford to pay their own bills. The only reason Tito and others had a chance of getting in space was because the russian government has issues. Or blaming the american who decided that it would be a good idea to "partner" with the russians.
My MBA had a case study on the motorcycle industry. It got to the point where HD had lobbied the feds to raise tarrifs on Japanese bikes because they couldn't compete. Also, the Japanese were stockpiling their bike getting ready to flood the market. Essentially, if it weren't for the government, HD would not exist today.
I thought it was a little funny that they were releasing "handwritten notes by the likes of Martin Luther". How much time in energy did they spend trying to shut him up?
I got an ad for visual studio .net when I pulled up the story...
I had a conference about storage with our Dell rep last week. He noticed that I had just bought a Toshiba e740. He told me to save my reciept because they are going to be price cutting everyone. The price he quoted me was $250... Now, he may just be blowing smoke up my ass, because he is a salesman after all. FYI...
I agree that it is more toy than tool. However, I believe that it is a wave of the future. Devices like this are going to become more common place. I think a lot of my issues come from having the cats.
It probably takes more time to clean everything out etc... But, it is a neat feeling to just push a button, leave, and come back, and the floor is clean... ;)
By the way... 2 of my cats just follow the thing around wondering what the hell it is... Whating them try and figure the thing out is pure entertainment... You probably have to be a cat person to enjoy that... ;)
It manuevers around and under everything that is over 6" high. So, it can deal with coffee tables, chairs, beds, etc. It detects stairs and avoids them. It comes with a virtual wall unit (you can buy more), that sends out a signal the roomba won't cross. When I first got it, I put it is my main room. It has a TV, a large L shaped couch, and 2 litter boxes. The room is 20x10. I eat in front of the tv, so you can imagine all that crap. I ran it in there, and I was amazed at all the stuff if picked up.
There are a few caveats, however. Battery life. You can only do "3 medium size rooms". My carpet is pretty thick, however. It is closer to 2 rooms. Plus, the time to charge the battery is 12 hours. You can buy spare batteries and a "quick charger", however, they are $60 bucks apiece. It is designed to do one room at a time, so you just can't put it up on the second floor and let it do everything. You have to put it into a room, close the door, and let it rip. It is not designed as a spot cleaner. If you have one really messy part of the room, you are better off getting your regular vacuum and vacumming that part of the room and then putting the roomba to work. The dirt collector is pretty small, so you have to empty it out after every room. Also, because of all the cat hair, I spend a lot of time cleaning the brushes and making sure the machine is clean. Unfortunately, it does not map out the room, so it may go over some areas that are not as high traffic as others, due to the algorithm that is uses.
My girlfriend thought I was nuts for buying it. However, for $200 bucks, (the price a of a decent vacuum) it is pretty cool. Now, only if it would travel stairs, do multiple rooms, have a larger dirt container, and plug itself back in, it would be near perfect
Hmm.. I don't recall ours doing that... But, maybe it is just I am never interested in the sports that they are showing.. :D However, we do have a local "sports" station. So, ... that may be the reason.
However, I seriously doubt that anyone will preempt it for anything except war with as much buildup and advertising they are doing. Unless that that is just in my area.