Do you know the only reason i wear a seat belt? It's so my insurance will cover me if I get into an accident. That is the only reason.
I've been driving for over 20 years without a single accident. Not one. I'm not worried about it. Regardless if I care or not, why should anyone be trying to force me to wear a seat belt? How does it help them?
This is the same thing. It works, I'm happy with it, and I've had no unacceptable outages. My college uses google for our mail. It's performance has been just fine. Should we move to our own internal mail, increase our costs, increase our maintenance, increase our spam, just so that people can get their mail when the internet is down and we can have the source code sitting in/user/local/src ? Seems like a waste of effort.
Plus like I said above, projects like google gears are making these issues go away.
Having the source doesn't make it free. I can't change OSX. I can use Darwin to build my own operating system, but I can't use it to make changes to osx.
But what I feel is freedom is more then just source. I can't install OSX (easily or without violating their policies) on my own hardware. I can't run apps in the background on my iphone. The list goes on and on. I feel apple is way more restrictive then microsoft in many ways. They are just a little more forthcoming with the source code.
That's not to say I don't like apple. Obviously I do or I wouldn't have bought 2 macbook pro's, an iphone, numerous ipods, and the new 24inch display.
This is my stance. When I'm programing software, I want the best tools possible to do my job. I like to use open standards and libraries when possible because they tend to foster a solid product. I'd like to make my code open source, but in most cases I'm not allowed by my employer (besides it's all for our internal staff).
When I'm using software, I just want it to work. I don't want to fuck with it, or tweak it, or read the source code. I don't want to modify it, edit it, hell I really don't want to even open a properties dialog if I can help it.
This is how I ended up moving away from linux. I was a big linux buff for years. I have taught classes at a community college on linux. I have gone to events and handed out ubuntu CD's by the dozens. But in the end, I wanted my computer to let me do work, not to let me work on the computer.
So I settled on a middle ground. I stopped being a hard line must be open source advocate. I use a mac (the most unfree of unfree) because it is solid, unix, and has a good selection of software that I need to do work.
So I use open source software if it meets my needs. But I'll also use non-free software without any hesitation. Who cares if I can't edit the code to my liking. I can't think of a single time I've done that in an open source product. Who cares if it can go away. I keep good backups of my important data. I can move to something else.
In the end I just want to get the task done as efficiently as possible so I an move on to having fun.
My internet connection has only gone down 3 times that I can recall in the last 5 years.
2 of those times were blackouts. So I wasn't using my computer. The 3rd was because of a communication problem causing my service to get shutoff a few days before my new service was installed.
In any case, I use a few software as a service type websites that offer their software as a gpl download so I could install it on my server and run it myself.
In fact, I'm doing just that with dimdim (netmeeting software) for my work.
I've toyed with the idea, but ultimately I keep deciding against a pc in the livingroom.
I already have a 360, ps3, wii, Uverse 2wire box, Uverse DVR box, wireless router (the Uverse box does not do wireless N), and a UPS (for the uverse phone) all in my tv stand. I really don't want anything else there.
Both the 360 and the ps3 are powerful enough to do the job. There is no reason they can't.
I've often thought it was a conspiracy that all pirate downloads for HD content are in MKV. It's not like you cant do high def content in containers that all major consoles will play.
All pirate downloads seem to not work with apple tv's, 360's, or ps3's out of the "box" so to speak. Yet when I transcode my own video's I can easily pick a format that any of those 3 will play.
In fact, I've straight up associated in my mind mkv files with piracy.
You find me a good IT job where I'm important, have control over the direction of the company AND get paid enough to live a upper-middle class lifestyle (such as buying macbook pro's and 24inch apple displays yearly) and I'll do it.
Of course that jackasses sending him pictures of his dead daughter saying "Look I'm still alive" really deserve a good ass kicking. For some reason I'm still amazed that such people even exist. You would think I would learn by now...
Hey, when you have 30 minutes to find food, your choices are burger king, mcdonalds or taco bell because of the waits at the other places, and you have 5.00 cash. What do you do?
Yea, I had a conversation with a taco bell manager about how fucking gross it was that his employee was coughing and blowing his nose every 5 seconds at the register.
He basically told me he didn't care. I haven't been back.
Exactly, I was employed at a large medical software company. We always used public IM for getting help from other techs on clients issues. This sometimes included sending a patients name or diag code. We all went though compliance training and I don't think it changed a damn thing in how we did business.
Now lets just get tmobile to actually have a real 3g network (their 3g network is some small it is actually hard to find service anywhere but in major cities) and I would switch in a heart beat.
I can get verizon 3g service and att 3g service but no tmobile. I'll stick with 3g service thank you.
We are doing a test rollout of blackberries, iphones, and windows mobile devices.
I get blackberries brought to me regularly because they are screwed up or the person does not know how to do what they want to do. I have not had a single iphone or windows mobile device brought to me.
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Do you know the only reason i wear a seat belt? It's so my insurance will cover me if I get into an accident. That is the only reason.
I've been driving for over 20 years without a single accident. Not one. I'm not worried about it. Regardless if I care or not, why should anyone be trying to force me to wear a seat belt? How does it help them?
This is the same thing. It works, I'm happy with it, and I've had no unacceptable outages. My college uses google for our mail. It's performance has been just fine. Should we move to our own internal mail, increase our costs, increase our maintenance, increase our spam, just so that people can get their mail when the internet is down and we can have the source code sitting in /user/local/src ? Seems like a waste of effort.
Plus like I said above, projects like google gears are making these issues go away.
Having the source doesn't make it free. I can't change OSX. I can use Darwin to build my own operating system, but I can't use it to make changes to osx.
But what I feel is freedom is more then just source. I can't install OSX (easily or without violating their policies) on my own hardware. I can't run apps in the background on my iphone. The list goes on and on. I feel apple is way more restrictive then microsoft in many ways. They are just a little more forthcoming with the source code.
That's not to say I don't like apple. Obviously I do or I wouldn't have bought 2 macbook pro's, an iphone, numerous ipods, and the new 24inch display.
Of course with things like google gears (gasp more google RMS) you can use your webapp while offline and have it sync up later.
This is my stance. When I'm programing software, I want the best tools possible to do my job. I like to use open standards and libraries when possible because they tend to foster a solid product. I'd like to make my code open source, but in most cases I'm not allowed by my employer (besides it's all for our internal staff).
When I'm using software, I just want it to work. I don't want to fuck with it, or tweak it, or read the source code. I don't want to modify it, edit it, hell I really don't want to even open a properties dialog if I can help it.
This is how I ended up moving away from linux. I was a big linux buff for years. I have taught classes at a community college on linux. I have gone to events and handed out ubuntu CD's by the dozens. But in the end, I wanted my computer to let me do work, not to let me work on the computer.
So I settled on a middle ground. I stopped being a hard line must be open source advocate. I use a mac (the most unfree of unfree) because it is solid, unix, and has a good selection of software that I need to do work.
So I use open source software if it meets my needs. But I'll also use non-free software without any hesitation. Who cares if I can't edit the code to my liking. I can't think of a single time I've done that in an open source product. Who cares if it can go away. I keep good backups of my important data. I can move to something else.
In the end I just want to get the task done as efficiently as possible so I an move on to having fun.
I need a super soaker and some spider plants stat!
My internet connection has only gone down 3 times that I can recall in the last 5 years.
2 of those times were blackouts. So I wasn't using my computer. The 3rd was because of a communication problem causing my service to get shutoff a few days before my new service was installed.
I'm not worried about losing the internets.
So what do you buy that says "Hey, I love mkv support"?
I didn't buy my ps3 to stream movies, that is just a bonus. Same with the 360.
I can't think of a device I would buy to just stream movies, and I can't think of one that has mkv support naively.
I'd probably build a computer and stick linux on it if I was looking for something like this.
Does anyone give a shit anymore?
In any case, I use a few software as a service type websites that offer their software as a gpl download so I could install it on my server and run it myself.
In fact, I'm doing just that with dimdim (netmeeting software) for my work.
But seriously, this is getting old.
I've toyed with the idea, but ultimately I keep deciding against a pc in the livingroom.
I already have a 360, ps3, wii, Uverse 2wire box, Uverse DVR box, wireless router (the Uverse box does not do wireless N), and a UPS (for the uverse phone) all in my tv stand. I really don't want anything else there.
Both the 360 and the ps3 are powerful enough to do the job. There is no reason they can't.
I've often thought it was a conspiracy that all pirate downloads for HD content are in MKV. It's not like you cant do high def content in containers that all major consoles will play.
All pirate downloads seem to not work with apple tv's, 360's, or ps3's out of the "box" so to speak. Yet when I transcode my own video's I can easily pick a format that any of those 3 will play.
In fact, I've straight up associated in my mind mkv files with piracy.
Try ps3MediaServer ( http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/ ) It works with the 360 and is the best app I have found for this.
I love ps3MediaServer. I use it on my mac notebook to serve files to my 360 and my ps3.
I am in the process of building a ubuntu machine to handle the streaming to reduce the load on my notebook.
You find me a good IT job where I'm important, have control over the direction of the company AND get paid enough to live a upper-middle class lifestyle (such as buying macbook pro's and 24inch apple displays yearly) and I'll do it.
Of course that jackasses sending him pictures of his dead daughter saying "Look I'm still alive" really deserve a good ass kicking. For some reason I'm still amazed that such people even exist. You would think I would learn by now...
Hey, when you have 30 minutes to find food, your choices are burger king, mcdonalds or taco bell because of the waits at the other places, and you have 5.00 cash. What do you do?
I know, go hungry...but damn I needed something.
Yea, I had a conversation with a taco bell manager about how fucking gross it was that his employee was coughing and blowing his nose every 5 seconds at the register.
He basically told me he didn't care. I haven't been back.
Seems like the only solution for a rational government is to outlaw all pigs. I mean think of the children!
The article states that the default install of ubuntu is insecure. He shows that it has pop3 and imap running by default.
This is wrong. They are not even installed by default.
That is all.
So much of that article is bunk. I know for a fact that mail servers are not installed by default on ubuntu. Yet he claims they are.
We run several servers with ubuntu 8.04 and a few desktops with ubuntu 8.10
I check them all, not one is running pop3 or imap.
I can't remember the last time I used the wii to play a wii game.
Typically I play downloaded classic games or gamecube stuff.
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Exactly, I was employed at a large medical software company. We always used public IM for getting help from other techs on clients issues. This sometimes included sending a patients name or diag code. We all went though compliance training and I don't think it changed a damn thing in how we did business.
Now lets just get tmobile to actually have a real 3g network (their 3g network is some small it is actually hard to find service anywhere but in major cities) and I would switch in a heart beat.
I can get verizon 3g service and att 3g service but no tmobile. I'll stick with 3g service thank you.
We are doing a test rollout of blackberries, iphones, and windows mobile devices.
I get blackberries brought to me regularly because they are screwed up or the person does not know how to do what they want to do. I have not had a single iphone or windows mobile device brought to me.
No way of overriding it without quickpwn or some other jailbreaking tool.
After that you just install backgrounder and all is well.