(I don't see many chances to convince a government to use it)
The government uses a tremendous amount of open source software, I don't see any reason they wouldn't consider mediawiki? Plus, everyone's heard of wikipedia,it's a pretty easy sell: "You've used wikipedia right? We're going to use the same exact software that runs wikipedia - and it's free!"
This might not apply to you, but thought I'd share it, because it's a common misconception. So here's my computer right now. Notice the yellow arrow? Looks like I'm only using half of my 16GB of memory right? Now, notice the blue arrow? That's the total actually available memory. The rest is currently in use as cache. The reason windows shows it as free is because it could be freed if something actually needed to use it.
Worth mentioning, the only thing I have open in that screenshot is Chrome with ~20 tabs. Point being, a lot of people see memory usage below 100% and assume the memory isn't being used by the OS. The reality is, more memory might actually improve performance significantly even though you're not "using" 100% of your system's memory.
I think given the growing size of the kernel, it's inevitable that there will be more opportunities for poor code to be submitted. There's more humans involved, more lines of code and more opportunity for "drama". I think it was inevitable at some point. I think he intentionally makes an example out of people occasionally. I think it keeps people on their toes. It certainly will make people double check that code before submitting it for fear of being embarrassed.
Because 99% of humanity doesn't even know what any of that stuff means. They just want to know if it's fast and does what they want it to do. Just like most people don't give a shit how many valves or overhead cams their car has. They just want to know if it's fast and reliable. That's what the tech world will never understand about Apple. It's not for the 1% comprising the tech community.
If you go into settings and turn on "Reduce Motion" it will get rid of all the annoying animations and the phone will feel twice as fast. I have no idea why Apple won't let the stupid transitions go.
Tesla has built what is slowly becoming a successful business using a tiny, TINY fraction of the cash that Apple has on hand, with a fraction of the access to the human resources that Apple has, based on brand recognition alone. Apple is sitting on over $200 billion in cash. To put this in perspective, that's four times the total value of GM (market cap of $48B currently).
Apple has never built a car, but Apple isn't a person. Apple has the resources to hire the best and brightest in the industry and to bring their design, supply chain access and incredible brand value to the table. I'm not going to write them off yet. If any company on earth could walk in and start building cars, it's Apple.
I guess I'll be "that guy". I've been using dwm for years and couldn't live without it. There are other options like awesomewm or i3. Your programs will automatically tile in a sane manner using up all the available screen space.
But, the really cool thing is that a window can exist in multiple "tags" which are kind of like "virtual desktops" but a lot more powerful.
I'd recommend at least trying out a tiling window manager and seeing what you think.
Without being snarky, I don't think we should write off computers yet. I think most of these programs just dump a bunch of money on laptops or ipads and are shocked when standardized test scores don't magically go up.
A computer is a tool, not a solution. It's all about the complete system used to educate. That's the hardware, software and processes working in concert to create an effective solution for learning.
It's not terribly difficult to spoof source addresses, it's getting the return traffic back that's tricky. Source address filtering makes it difficult but not impossible. For example most ISPs will discard traffic from their subscribers that don't have a source address in a netblock they own/announce.
But using a combination of spoofed source address on networks where filtering is difficult or not implemented properly, along with service amplification, it's still a problem.
I miss the good old days before the cloud when nothing was ever hacked. Right, guys? Right?
Take a look at the hacks over the last few years and tell me how many were due to compromised public clouds. Home Depot? Nope. Target? Nope. Heartland? Nope.
Congratulations on being one of the few not outsourced to India or replaced by H1-B workers. You are in the minority. You're even more replaceable than the helpdesk guy, because he needs to be on site to turn someones computer off/on.
This always confused me. Do you take your watch off at night? I do, so I could just put in on my charger. Just like my phone, I don't sleep with it, so I just sit it on the dock at night, which charges it.
Genuinely curious, why do you need more than 1-2 days? You have to take it off anyway, why not just charge it?
Python, Ruby or node.js. I think PHP gets a bad rap, personally. Sure its inconsistent and kind of clunky, but it's very approachable, relatively fast and runs everywhere. But it's also got a big messy history behind it, and it's an easy target to poke fun at.
You're clearly a technical guy that's used to having his hands in the guts of it, so to speak. You have to learn to be able to work with a degree of separation through other people. It's extremely difficult and takes an entirely new set of skills that you will need to continue to be successful. You have to learn to trust (but verify) other people.
Personally I don't find it nearly as fun as doing it myself, but it's much more lucrative and allows you to have a much broader impact in the organization. You can only do so much directly, by yourself.
Not possible. No business of any reasonable size is going to not purchase a particular software because it doesn't support a particular authentication mechanism. There are too many other requirements to write something off just because of no LDAP/RADIUS. There are far more complex reasons behind purchasing software of any real scale.
I wasn't convinced until I read your name, but now I'm a believer.
In all seriousness, you're correct. I've found in the real world you're using a combination of Active Directory (or some other LDAP) along with web based applications, and maybe even some compiled applications running locally. Some are behind the firewall, some aren't. You really need something that can support SAML along with form-filling that will also sync with AD to really cover the whole gamut. And even then some of it will be a manual process (eg that website that won't save passwords and doesn't support SAML).
It's a big complex problem and no one has solved it 100%.
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(I don't see many chances to convince a government to use it)
The government uses a tremendous amount of open source software, I don't see any reason they wouldn't consider mediawiki? Plus, everyone's heard of wikipedia,it's a pretty easy sell: "You've used wikipedia right? We're going to use the same exact software that runs wikipedia - and it's free!"
The problem with systemd isn't that it doesn't work, and if you don't understand that you don't need to be involved in any discussion about it.
Windows "works". iOS "works". That doesn't mean I want them in any way integrated into Linux.
It's just nobody's really asking for a replacement
No one asked Henry Ford to make cars, either. This attitude, specifically in technology, is baffling to me.
So what crime do I need to commit to get a free degree? Gotta make sure I stay in at least four years.
This might not apply to you, but thought I'd share it, because it's a common misconception. So here's my computer right now. Notice the yellow arrow? Looks like I'm only using half of my 16GB of memory right? Now, notice the blue arrow? That's the total actually available memory. The rest is currently in use as cache. The reason windows shows it as free is because it could be freed if something actually needed to use it.
Worth mentioning, the only thing I have open in that screenshot is Chrome with ~20 tabs. Point being, a lot of people see memory usage below 100% and assume the memory isn't being used by the OS. The reality is, more memory might actually improve performance significantly even though you're not "using" 100% of your system's memory.
I think given the growing size of the kernel, it's inevitable that there will be more opportunities for poor code to be submitted. There's more humans involved, more lines of code and more opportunity for "drama". I think it was inevitable at some point. I think he intentionally makes an example out of people occasionally. I think it keeps people on their toes. It certainly will make people double check that code before submitting it for fear of being embarrassed.
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Because 99% of humanity doesn't even know what any of that stuff means. They just want to know if it's fast and does what they want it to do. Just like most people don't give a shit how many valves or overhead cams their car has. They just want to know if it's fast and reliable. That's what the tech world will never understand about Apple. It's not for the 1% comprising the tech community.
If you go into settings and turn on "Reduce Motion" it will get rid of all the annoying animations and the phone will feel twice as fast. I have no idea why Apple won't let the stupid transitions go.
Tesla has built what is slowly becoming a successful business using a tiny, TINY fraction of the cash that Apple has on hand, with a fraction of the access to the human resources that Apple has, based on brand recognition alone. Apple is sitting on over $200 billion in cash. To put this in perspective, that's four times the total value of GM (market cap of $48B currently).
Apple has never built a car, but Apple isn't a person. Apple has the resources to hire the best and brightest in the industry and to bring their design, supply chain access and incredible brand value to the table. I'm not going to write them off yet. If any company on earth could walk in and start building cars, it's Apple.
Wait a couple of weeks for the internet's ADHD to kick in and everyone to move on to something else. Problem solved.
I guess I'll be "that guy". I've been using dwm for years and couldn't live without it. There are other options like awesomewm or i3. Your programs will automatically tile in a sane manner using up all the available screen space.
But, the really cool thing is that a window can exist in multiple "tags" which are kind of like "virtual desktops" but a lot more powerful.
I'd recommend at least trying out a tiling window manager and seeing what you think.
Without being snarky, I don't think we should write off computers yet. I think most of these programs just dump a bunch of money on laptops or ipads and are shocked when standardized test scores don't magically go up.
A computer is a tool, not a solution. It's all about the complete system used to educate. That's the hardware, software and processes working in concert to create an effective solution for learning.
It's not terribly difficult to spoof source addresses, it's getting the return traffic back that's tricky. Source address filtering makes it difficult but not impossible. For example most ISPs will discard traffic from their subscribers that don't have a source address in a netblock they own/announce.
But using a combination of spoofed source address on networks where filtering is difficult or not implemented properly, along with service amplification, it's still a problem.
I miss the good old days before the cloud when nothing was ever hacked. Right, guys? Right?
Take a look at the hacks over the last few years and tell me how many were due to compromised public clouds. Home Depot? Nope. Target? Nope. Heartland? Nope.
Congratulations on being one of the few not outsourced to India or replaced by H1-B workers. You are in the minority. You're even more replaceable than the helpdesk guy, because he needs to be on site to turn someones computer off/on.
Honestly, save the $100 and get the original iPad Air. The only thing the new Air 2 adds that matters is a thumbprint scanner and a faster CPU.
This always confused me. Do you take your watch off at night? I do, so I could just put in on my charger. Just like my phone, I don't sleep with it, so I just sit it on the dock at night, which charges it.
Genuinely curious, why do you need more than 1-2 days? You have to take it off anyway, why not just charge it?
Python, Ruby or node.js. I think PHP gets a bad rap, personally. Sure its inconsistent and kind of clunky, but it's very approachable, relatively fast and runs everywhere. But it's also got a big messy history behind it, and it's an easy target to poke fun at.
You're clearly a technical guy that's used to having his hands in the guts of it, so to speak. You have to learn to be able to work with a degree of separation through other people. It's extremely difficult and takes an entirely new set of skills that you will need to continue to be successful. You have to learn to trust (but verify) other people.
Personally I don't find it nearly as fun as doing it myself, but it's much more lucrative and allows you to have a much broader impact in the organization. You can only do so much directly, by yourself.
So you're telling me that about 1/3 of people are old luddites? Duh?
Not possible. No business of any reasonable size is going to not purchase a particular software because it doesn't support a particular authentication mechanism. There are too many other requirements to write something off just because of no LDAP/RADIUS. There are far more complex reasons behind purchasing software of any real scale.
I wasn't convinced until I read your name, but now I'm a believer.
In all seriousness, you're correct. I've found in the real world you're using a combination of Active Directory (or some other LDAP) along with web based applications, and maybe even some compiled applications running locally. Some are behind the firewall, some aren't. You really need something that can support SAML along with form-filling that will also sync with AD to really cover the whole gamut. And even then some of it will be a manual process (eg that website that won't save passwords and doesn't support SAML).
It's a big complex problem and no one has solved it 100%.
Name three that are good.
You're right, we call them "suckers".