...Maybe they can call it "Redsearch.com" or something like that... although that URL might be a bit too close to some other web sites that conservatives wouldn't approve of:)
..."Just following orders" is not a good defense in court.
Agreed, and if Indian companies are violating US labor laws there should indeed be consequences but I thought for this discussion we were talking about legal hires. Illegal hires is a whole 'nother matter:)
I can only speak to my own experience but we're seeing a fairly large departure of talent mainly because the company doesn't quite pay market and even the H1B holders are moving on to greener pastures. I've been here for five years and am paid slightly above market, but my company has decided that employee retention isn't all that and hiring freshers is the best way to increase their bottom line.
I don't agree with that at all. Talent attrition appears to be part of their business model:)
I'm an American working for an Indian company - one of Infosys' competitors.
You really can't blame the Indian companies as it's the onshore CIO who's outsourcing this stuff and the executive team who makes the decision to outsource to offshore. I've said it a buncha times - all we did was respond to an RFP.
It's not Infosys' fault - since the standard of living is lower in India than it is here salaries are also lower. If you don't want Infosys, Wipro, Accenture and the like running your IT perhaps it's the American companies that need to consider hiring American.
The other thing is that if offshore resources arrive here on an H1B visa they're free to seek other employment. IME onshore salaries are generally competitive or you lose people.
Baloo has replaced nepomuk and is much better behaved. Akonadi and Telepathy are frequent sources of frustration for me though. Also, the Network Manager can crash all Plasma widgets and window decorations, which is very annoying—I don't know if this is an OpenSuse or KDE bug.
As I mentioned a couple months ago (modded +5!), it remains the least annoying DE for me.
I disable both baloo and akonadi (I use no KDE PIM apps). I'm running v5.7.4 on Debian Unstable and telepathy is still busted if you need to connect to a skype for business resource, but perhaps that's fixed in 5.8.
Also, I have no love for network manager; my requirements are simple so I use wicd-kde.
My Plasma 5 desktop uses about 100MB more RAM at idle than my openbox/compton/tint2/pavucontrol/wicd/conky/pcmanfm desktop did, which means it takes about two seconds longer to boot. But - customizable? I have a desktop service menu with my most-frequently used applications (this was really the only thing I missed from *box) and if one was to look in ~/.config there are enough text files in there to keep me entertained for months.
I work for a small (formerly family-owned) company.
That's one of the secrets, right there. Work in a place where the decision-makers actually reside and whom you will occasionally encounter, and you have a chance of being treated with respect. If "corporate" is in another town, all bets are off.
I'm probably the exception rather than the rule but I'm an American working for an Indian company with > 100k employees. The spousal unit got very ill and spent three weeks in the hospital, after about the third day I called my boss, told him I was setting my out of office and that I would keep him informed.
Long story short I took three weeks off without getting charged one day of vacation or sick leave and when I got back to the office the boss insisted I work from home for a couple weeks. I finally had to tell him that I *had* to go back to the office, that my wife wasn't being neglected and that the spousal unit's daughter was pitching in and I wasn't needed at home 24/7.
A lot of the time this company pisses me off but when I really needed some help they didn't hesitate. I can forgive a whole lot of stupid if I'm sure people are taking care of me:)
I feel as if KDE is the beset Desktop Environment Linux ever produced. with maybe the exception of KDE 2, it has been one of the most methodical, configurable environment there is. It should have been the defacto Environment space for Linux.
KDE has been my preferred desktop until four or five years ago when I discovered #!.
I run Debian Sid, and in the past few years have taken *box about as far as I cared to and decided to give Plasma5 a spin - and was pleasantly surprised.
I found a service menu on kde-apps that gave me the right-click application menu I missed in *box and I still have to edit.kickoffrc to get it to display the way I want, but my seven or eight most-used applications are just a right-click away now.
Not a fan of the flat theme either (or the fact that the KDE team doesn't love any color but blue) and fixed both of those - here are a couple of screenshots, one clean and one dirty. Linked images are kinda big - 1920x1080.
Autonomous trucks will still need fuel, most truckers don't sleep in hotels and I can't speak for anybody else but when I was a driver I ate one sit-down meal a day when I stopped for fuel.
Will be interested to see how AI deals with a mountain pass or city traffic; I think autonomous trucks will need human assistance for at least the foreseeable future.
...but encrypt everything I can't afford to lose with my own 2, 048 bit key. IM frequently less than HO encrypted cloud storage isn't secure unless you have control of the encryption key.
I keep the key on optical media in my house and a printed copy in a safe deposit box at the bank.
I have a pair of WD TV Live boxes in my house and love the little gadgets. I've used them for four or five years and have yet to see a video file they wouldn't play so for me, transcoding is not a requirement. My media server is an HP Atom N270 netbook with 2GB RAM running Debian Unstable and I use minidlna to serve up video and audio; I also use this machine to manage network backups to an external hard drive. Works like a charm.
Although the netbook has a GUI installed I never use it, preferring to manage it over an SSH session.
If you're committed to the crawlspace thing (and it appears that you are), as others have mentioned as long as you can keep water, dust and critters out of the machine you should be fine; but with the WD box you really don't need anything fancy to act as a DLNA server. You seem to be committed to running a Windows machine as well, so I'm not gonna debate that point:)
I think the biggest challenge you'll have is keeping critters out of the machine while still maintaining reasonable airflow; so I'd think that a low-power box that didn't require much in the way of cooling would be the way to go; I think your biggest issue will probably be keeping bugs out of the thing.
...I’m leaving it behind because I honestly believe that it no longer holds any value,
Would disagree pretty strongly. I was a longtime KDE user and was scared witless of lightweight WM after a few failed attempts back in the day. #! gave me a lightweight distribution that worked OOB and gave me a usable system; I felt free to backup configs and tweak to my heart's content, knowing I could always put it back the way it was if I screwed it up.
That's how I learned openbox. That's also how I learned that I preferred fluxbox to openbox.
Then I figured one day that since I had a really nice #! configuration I could migrate the thing to full Debian. After that I learned that migrating a #! install to Debian isn't as easy as one would think, but I got through it. That gave me the confidence to clean-install Jessie and later, Sid which is where I am now.
But I'm still using the default #! theme:)
corenominal saved me a lot of pain and I learned a lot. I'm not sure there really is anything to replace what #! is out of the box.
Actually, no... They are discriminated against based on salary expectations.
This. This right here.
I'm an American working for an Indian IT company in a middle management position. The company for which I work seems to believe that employee attrition is cost of doing business and although I'm compensated fairly (which was a pretty good trick all by itself), the majority of my peers and subordinates are not. I wouldn't blame any of them for leaving. If my company hadn't made things right with me I'd have left a year and a half ago.
Most companies based in India don't pay anywhere near market; that's how they win contracts. Sad to say, but the customer gets what he pays for; if you want to outsource and want American workers the customer has to be prepared to pay the price. There is one client at this location that requires their service desk to be all native speakers; since this will be staffed with all US employees they're gonna pay more than if the company had outsourced some or all of that service desk to India.
High employee attrition appears to be an acceptable business risk to most of these companies.
#! Waldorf is Debian Wheezy running openbox with training wheels installed. It comes with a working panel, compositing, wallpaper, screensaver, conky and as parent pointed out, one tool per task. I wanted to learn a lightweight WM without all the pain of first-time configuring a lightweight WM;-)
I won't need crunchbang next time I install but am grateful to the #! team for teaching me openbox in the most painless way possible.
...Meanwhile, #2 still applies - a game station is actually a very cheap distraction if it prevents a single serious incident. Figure $10k if somebody's stabbed, $100k+ for a prison riot, etc...
The reason they have cable TV in prisons is to reduce the number of guards required to manage prisoners. I don't have real numbers but I'd wager that paying a couple of prison guards for a year is considerably more expensive than a year's worth of cable TV.
ps - I use homeplug *and* WDS at the house - mainly because there are three walls and a floor between my home router and the rack where directv/PS3/xbox lives. There is a WDS node in the kitchen one floor below the my router and another one in my bedroom feeding a directv receiver. This is a fairly new house and the spousal unit won't allow me to pull wire through her walls.
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After looking at the picture it took everything I had not to make a goatse joke. :)
You don't deploy technology to address a people issue.
...Maybe they can call it "Redsearch.com" or something like that... although that URL might be a bit too close to some other web sites that conservatives wouldn't approve of :)
1. Buys domain.
2. Redirect users to redtube.com
3. ???
4. Profit!
My twitter feed has probably 30 news sources in it from MSNBC to Fox and everything in between. I just read the feeds and develop my own conclusions.
I don't tweet much myself but using twitter as a news aggregator works pretty well for me.
..."Just following orders" is not a good defense in court.
Agreed, and if Indian companies are violating US labor laws there should indeed be consequences but I thought for this discussion we were talking about legal hires. Illegal hires is a whole 'nother matter :)
I can only speak to my own experience but we're seeing a fairly large departure of talent mainly because the company doesn't quite pay market and even the H1B holders are moving on to greener pastures. I've been here for five years and am paid slightly above market, but my company has decided that employee retention isn't all that and hiring freshers is the best way to increase their bottom line.
I don't agree with that at all. Talent attrition appears to be part of their business model :)
I'm an American working for an Indian company - one of Infosys' competitors. You really can't blame the Indian companies as it's the onshore CIO who's outsourcing this stuff and the executive team who makes the decision to outsource to offshore. I've said it a buncha times - all we did was respond to an RFP. It's not Infosys' fault - since the standard of living is lower in India than it is here salaries are also lower. If you don't want Infosys, Wipro, Accenture and the like running your IT perhaps it's the American companies that need to consider hiring American. The other thing is that if offshore resources arrive here on an H1B visa they're free to seek other employment. IME onshore salaries are generally competitive or you lose people.
Baloo has replaced nepomuk and is much better behaved. Akonadi and Telepathy are frequent sources of frustration for me though. Also, the Network Manager can crash all Plasma widgets and window decorations, which is very annoying—I don't know if this is an OpenSuse or KDE bug. As I mentioned a couple months ago (modded +5!), it remains the least annoying DE for me.
I disable both baloo and akonadi (I use no KDE PIM apps). I'm running v5.7.4 on Debian Unstable and telepathy is still busted if you need to connect to a skype for business resource, but perhaps that's fixed in 5.8. Also, I have no love for network manager; my requirements are simple so I use wicd-kde. My Plasma 5 desktop uses about 100MB more RAM at idle than my openbox/compton/tint2/pavucontrol/wicd/conky/pcmanfm desktop did, which means it takes about two seconds longer to boot. But - customizable? I have a desktop service menu with my most-frequently used applications (this was really the only thing I missed from *box) and if one was to look in ~/.config there are enough text files in there to keep me entertained for months.
That's one of the secrets, right there. Work in a place where the decision-makers actually reside and whom you will occasionally encounter, and you have a chance of being treated with respect. If "corporate" is in another town, all bets are off.
I'm probably the exception rather than the rule but I'm an American working for an Indian company with > 100k employees. The spousal unit got very ill and spent three weeks in the hospital, after about the third day I called my boss, told him I was setting my out of office and that I would keep him informed. Long story short I took three weeks off without getting charged one day of vacation or sick leave and when I got back to the office the boss insisted I work from home for a couple weeks. I finally had to tell him that I *had* to go back to the office, that my wife wasn't being neglected and that the spousal unit's daughter was pitching in and I wasn't needed at home 24/7. A lot of the time this company pisses me off but when I really needed some help they didn't hesitate. I can forgive a whole lot of stupid if I'm sure people are taking care of me :)
I feel as if KDE is the beset Desktop Environment Linux ever produced. with maybe the exception of KDE 2, it has been one of the most methodical, configurable environment there is. It should have been the defacto Environment space for Linux.
KDE has been my preferred desktop until four or five years ago when I discovered #!. I run Debian Sid, and in the past few years have taken *box about as far as I cared to and decided to give Plasma5 a spin - and was pleasantly surprised. I found a service menu on kde-apps that gave me the right-click application menu I missed in *box and I still have to edit .kickoffrc to get it to display the way I want, but my seven or eight most-used applications are just a right-click away now.
Not a fan of the flat theme either (or the fact that the KDE team doesn't love any color but blue) and fixed both of those - here are a couple of screenshots, one clean and one dirty. Linked images are kinda big - 1920x1080.
clean screenshot
dirty screenshot
Jumping on the Dell bandwagon - I have a Precision M4500 laptop I bought off-lease from dellrefurbished.com.
I run Debian Unstable on this machine and everything works except for the fingerprint reader, for which there is no Linux driver.
Never let a hostile agent know his operations were successful.
First generation i7 (i7-740QM), 8GB ram, 1GB Nvidia Quadro 1800M, 15" 1920x1080 screen, 240gb Crucial SSD.
OS is Debian Unstable.
Though I have not met an actual Debian user who is "totally ok with it".
Nice to meet you, AC. Former Linux sysadmin and current Sid user here; I've been using Debian for years. ;-)
...I was a trucker long before I was a geek.
Autonomous trucks will still need fuel, most truckers don't sleep in hotels and I can't speak for anybody else but when I was a driver I ate one sit-down meal a day when I stopped for fuel.
Will be interested to see how AI deals with a mountain pass or city traffic; I think autonomous trucks will need human assistance for at least the foreseeable future.
...but encrypt everything I can't afford to lose with my own 2, 048 bit key. IM frequently less than HO encrypted cloud storage isn't secure unless you have control of the encryption key.
I keep the key on optical media in my house and a printed copy in a safe deposit box at the bank.
I have a pair of WD TV Live boxes in my house and love the little gadgets. I've used them for four or five years and have yet to see a video file they wouldn't play so for me, transcoding is not a requirement. My media server is an HP Atom N270 netbook with 2GB RAM running Debian Unstable and I use minidlna to serve up video and audio; I also use this machine to manage network backups to an external hard drive. Works like a charm.
Although the netbook has a GUI installed I never use it, preferring to manage it over an SSH session.
If you're committed to the crawlspace thing (and it appears that you are), as others have mentioned as long as you can keep water, dust and critters out of the machine you should be fine; but with the WD box you really don't need anything fancy to act as a DLNA server. You seem to be committed to running a Windows machine as well, so I'm not gonna debate that point :)
I think the biggest challenge you'll have is keeping critters out of the machine while still maintaining reasonable airflow; so I'd think that a low-power box that didn't require much in the way of cooling would be the way to go; I think your biggest issue will probably be keeping bugs out of the thing.
...I’m leaving it behind because I honestly believe that it no longer holds any value,
Would disagree pretty strongly. I was a longtime KDE user and was scared witless of lightweight WM after a few failed attempts back in the day. #! gave me a lightweight distribution that worked OOB and gave me a usable system; I felt free to backup configs and tweak to my heart's content, knowing I could always put it back the way it was if I screwed it up.
That's how I learned openbox. That's also how I learned that I preferred fluxbox to openbox.
Then I figured one day that since I had a really nice #! configuration I could migrate the thing to full Debian. After that I learned that migrating a #! install to Debian isn't as easy as one would think, but I got through it. That gave me the confidence to clean-install Jessie and later, Sid which is where I am now.
But I'm still using the default #! theme :)
corenominal saved me a lot of pain and I learned a lot. I'm not sure there really is anything to replace what #! is out of the box.
Actually, no... They are discriminated against based on salary expectations.
This. This right here.
I'm an American working for an Indian IT company in a middle management position. The company for which I work seems to believe that employee attrition is cost of doing business and although I'm compensated fairly (which was a pretty good trick all by itself), the majority of my peers and subordinates are not. I wouldn't blame any of them for leaving. If my company hadn't made things right with me I'd have left a year and a half ago.
Most companies based in India don't pay anywhere near market; that's how they win contracts. Sad to say, but the customer gets what he pays for; if you want to outsource and want American workers the customer has to be prepared to pay the price. There is one client at this location that requires their service desk to be all native speakers; since this will be staffed with all US employees they're gonna pay more than if the company had outsourced some or all of that service desk to India.
High employee attrition appears to be an acceptable business risk to most of these companies.
Seconded.
#! Waldorf is Debian Wheezy running openbox with training wheels installed. It comes with a working panel, compositing, wallpaper, screensaver, conky and as parent pointed out, one tool per task. I wanted to learn a lightweight WM without all the pain of first-time configuring a lightweight WM ;-)
I won't need crunchbang next time I install but am grateful to the #! team for teaching me openbox in the most painless way possible.
terminator is awfully tough to beat. You can split one fullscreen console into as many consoles as you need ;-)
more accurate to say he liked the ability to configure every little thing, but has many gripes too about overall look & feel and defaults
I'd say his post overall is why many people still go to things like xfce4, mate, cinnamon, LXDE, etc.
IIRC Linus switched *from* XFCE.
...Meanwhile, #2 still applies - a game station is actually a very cheap distraction if it prevents a single serious incident. Figure $10k if somebody's stabbed, $100k+ for a prison riot, etc...
The reason they have cable TV in prisons is to reduce the number of guards required to manage prisoners. I don't have real numbers but I'd wager that paying a couple of prison guards for a year is considerably more expensive than a year's worth of cable TV.
ps - I use homeplug *and* WDS at the house - mainly because there are three walls and a floor between my home router and the rack where directv/PS3/xbox lives. There is a WDS node in the kitchen one floor below the my router and another one in my bedroom feeding a directv receiver. This is a fairly new house and the spousal unit won't allow me to pull wire through her walls.
Yet. ;-)
If the homeplug nodes are on opposite sides of the breaker box your signal goes through the transformer on the pole down the street.
First thing I do on a new KDE installation is install wicd, even on wired connections. network-manager is just awful.