As always, it's the games that will drive new PC purchases. How soon before we start seeing sys requirements such as "Core Duo or equivalent, 2 Gig RAM", etc.?
And these new PCs will have Vista pre-installed. Which will, in turn cause Vista to be yet another System requirement.
My scepticism tells me that Microsoft and Intel HAD to have worked together on this.
It's the application support provided by the actual application vendors themselves. such as Oracle. Try and get paid support for Oracle on Ubuntu. You can't. They allow you to download a package specifically for Ubuntu, but htye won't support it.
Support for the OS is relatively easy to come by. Application support is another story.
I no longer work in the IT industry, however, I still have my resume up on dice.com. I still get a lot of inquiries (10-15 a week), but NONE are from direct hire employers. They are all recruiters. A nd if you look at the actual job descriptions, all these different recruiters are vying to fill the same position.
Nevermind the fact that these recruiters routinely disregard location and travel preference.
It comes down to recruiters searching on hot keywords (such as linux clusters), and mass-emailing to all possible matches.
In other words, you're a PC fanboy who's in love with the idea of spending hours on end dicking around inside his computer. Most of us aren't.
Until your "OS that just works" prevents you from doing something you want. Then you'll be very interested in "dicking around" trying to get things working. I'm not pro or against Mac per sé, but even I can tell that a proprietary OS (ragardless of BSD underpinnings) is capable of locking you out of certain things, should the manufacturer wish it.
Maybe this isn't typical, but I know someone who works at a national grocery chain - and he's pulling in 48K a year, working 34-36 hours a week. Granted, he also does other things, such as stock shelves, inventory, etc. (He's not a manager. His title is "Checker").
I would say that the Union to which he belongs plays a significant role in what he makes.
I certainly wouldn't consider blogs that type of place, but industry-specific portas seem to be where it's at right now.
There are a couple decent ones in my industry - translation and interpretation. I'm sure that it's this way for the majority of industries where its workers at least feel that they work at a professional level, if not truly represented as such.
or what's involved in getting one to move, but I have to say, after watching the video I'm impressed that with only 32M of memory it can do what it can.
Of course, right now it's probably preprogrammed in, so I don't suppose it'd need much.
We we extremely successful and thus bought by a huge company. The first thing they did is change the way we did things... not realizing that the reason they bought us in the first place is that we were already doing things right. Very strange indeed.
You don't mention what industry you're in, but buyouts rarely happen solely on the success of the company being purchased. Most likely it's simply your product that the parent company wants. Could be for IP purposes or to remove a competing product from the market.
Either way, and having been through a couple buyouts myself, the reason they changed the way you did things was to match their corporate culture, not the other way around.
Which means that we no longer have to live in paranoid fear of the tiny, tiny chance that trying to do something nice for people will end up with being arrested for aiding terrorists or pedophiles.
Unless the AUP expressly forbids wifi sharing. You might want to double check your TOS. MANY, many providers forbid sharing wifi connections.
I was able to install Tiger_x86 (10.4) under VMWare. Got networking with one of Maxxuss' pathes. Still can't get sound to work though. Other than that, it runs fine in VMWare.
That's not a server. That's a desktop system. Contrary to what Dell want you to think with their entry-level servers, servers really do need redundancy, not to mention more than 512M of RAM.
Here's a list of things that work and things that don't:
Working features:
1. Keyboard
2. Mouse
3. Screen (doesn't fill the screen yet)
4. USB is detected (obviously because we booted from it!)
5. CardBus chipset (which houses the Cingular WWAN adapter).
Non Working features:
1. VAIO button
2. Fingerprint scanner
3. Intel WiFi card
4. Zoom buttons
5. Touchscreen (this might work if I look into it more..maybe later)
6. Camera's DON'T work
Would you be happy spending that much money and discover that half of the hardware that makes it useful doesn't work?
You may want to consider how you're representing your company while you're lecturing.
I don't know what Google's dress code is, but I do know that when, say, Oracle sends a consultant out to help with setpup/problem resolution, etc. they usually show up in business-casual attire - khakis and a button-down shirt with their Logo.
Again, I don't know what Google's stance is on dress. They may be perfectly fine with Jeans and a T-Shirt.
Now, go look up someone like Carly Fiorina. She's fairly controversial, right? So what's the first thing you see when you hit her page? "This article may not conform to the neutral point of view policy. A Wikipedian has nominated this article to be checked for its neutrality."
Which is all well a good (considering a sizeable number of us probably agree with the content), but how often do you suppose that happens? I'm betting often. Or worse, that it will be so common in the future as to be considered the norm.
Slashdot Mirror
mine contains no spyware, but then I'm using a Linux version, so maybe there's a difference for each OS.
And these new PCs will have Vista pre-installed. Which will, in turn cause Vista to be yet another System requirement.
My scepticism tells me that Microsoft and Intel HAD to have worked together on this.
Of course. You realize, however, that that is how the IT/IT support business has been run for decades, right?
Over time this may or may not change, but today, that's still how it's done.
It's the application support provided by the actual application vendors themselves. such as Oracle. Try and get paid support for Oracle on Ubuntu. You can't. They allow you to download a package specifically for Ubuntu, but htye won't support it.
Support for the OS is relatively easy to come by. Application support is another story.
Nevermind the fact that these recruiters routinely disregard location and travel preference.
It comes down to recruiters searching on hot keywords (such as linux clusters), and mass-emailing to all possible matches.
Probably, considering RedHat is the source.
Fact of the matter is, the older you get, the more you realize you don't know squat.
Parents can and do help their kids through high school and beyond, whether the kids realize it or not (they'll realize it later on in life).
Until your "OS that just works" prevents you from doing something you want. Then you'll be very interested in "dicking around" trying to get things working. I'm not pro or against Mac per sé, but even I can tell that a proprietary OS (ragardless of BSD underpinnings) is capable of locking you out of certain things, should the manufacturer wish it.
I would say that the Union to which he belongs plays a significant role in what he makes.
That's how I got out of my draconian contract with ATT cables services at the time.
Seriously, one return-receipt letter with a law office's letterhead does the trick.
Which we Linux users are used to seeing. Now we get to see this:
Even though we have Flash installed, albeit not the latest version.
Looks to me like they are comparing all those things. And that being the case, I also don't believe it's fair to compar beta with relased versions.
Absolutely. They're just web-based now.
I certainly wouldn't consider blogs that type of place, but industry-specific portas seem to be where it's at right now.
There are a couple decent ones in my industry - translation and interpretation. I'm sure that it's this way for the majority of industries where its workers at least feel that they work at a professional level, if not truly represented as such.
Of course, right now it's probably preprogrammed in, so I don't suppose it'd need much.
And gets 6-8 miles to the gallon.
You don't mention what industry you're in, but buyouts rarely happen solely on the success of the company being purchased. Most likely it's simply your product that the parent company wants. Could be for IP purposes or to remove a competing product from the market.
Either way, and having been through a couple buyouts myself, the reason they changed the way you did things was to match their corporate culture, not the other way around.
Unless the AUP expressly forbids wifi sharing. You might want to double check your TOS. MANY, many providers forbid sharing wifi connections.
Why on earth would you post a link to your own offtopic diatribe?
I was able to install Tiger_x86 (10.4) under VMWare. Got networking with one of Maxxuss' pathes. Still can't get sound to work though. Other than that, it runs fine in VMWare.
That's not a server. That's a desktop system. Contrary to what Dell want you to think with their entry-level servers, servers really do need redundancy, not to mention more than 512M of RAM.
Would you be happy spending that much money and discover that half of the hardware that makes it useful doesn't work?
I don't know what Google's dress code is, but I do know that when, say, Oracle sends a consultant out to help with setpup/problem resolution, etc. they usually show up in business-casual attire - khakis and a button-down shirt with their Logo.
Again, I don't know what Google's stance is on dress. They may be perfectly fine with Jeans and a T-Shirt.
I know that Codeweavers add some of their own stuff in, but it was my understanding that all of their code eventually made its way back to WineHQ.
Which is all well a good (considering a sizeable number of us probably agree with the content), but how often do you suppose that happens? I'm betting often. Or worse, that it will be so common in the future as to be considered the norm.