One thing I really like is the aspect of 2 cut-and-paste buffers. When I explain it to tech-friends of mine they really are amazed. There's a primary buffer and a secondary buffer. The secondary buffer is like the buffer in Windows and MacOS. You have Ctrl-C for copy and Ctrl-V for paste. Or you can use the context menus. The primary buffer however is everything you selected, and then ofcourse only the last selection. Pasting is done with middle mouse button. This way you can use 2 buffers. Like you Ctrl-C the username, and select the password. Place focus on the other app. Paste the password from the primary buffer, and Ctrl-V the username. All in one go. I just don't want to live without it.
A requirement for 20-25 hours a week is because I really need to have my restdays. I can work a week for 5 days, and maybe 2 weeks. But it does wear me out. I get tired, can't get out of bed anymore, and I'm just generally unhappy. And that's just not the right path to take. Right now I work 2 days, have a day off, and then work another day. There are jobs available that suit this rythm, but ofcourse not very much of them. I live in Europe, and the lifestyle is somewhat better. And I should take care not to get hired by an American company:).
And about other obligations. I have a girlfriend who needs time with me, and I have a healthy social life. So yes, you can call those obligations.
I'm somewhat sensitive to emotional atmosphere. People haveing an argument at the workplace which turns sour, that sort of thing. I can handle something, but too much wears me out.
Ah, haha. I'm not a slacker, I do my job. Last year I started at a paying job, which I decided to not continue with. The employer offered me the same job again half a year later. He was really happy with me.
Thank you for the rest, some others already pointed that out. I'm now with nice people at a volunteer setting. Setting up a commercial company might be a good idea. Actually, when I got at this volunteer job, there were some other people making that step. So maybe it's time for me to find people to make that step with.
Ah, yes. I should have elaborated in the startpost, but it was too long already. At my workplace I'm really motivated, and do a lot of work. It's not a problem there. It's only a problem working from home, because of many different factors.
Thank you for your kind and insightfull response. Maybe I am too quick at judging that self-employment is not my thing. I don't think I had too high expectations. Some of my goals were to have this year a turn-around of 3000 Euro's, which I might make. And also to have fun at what I do. But during the first 8 months of this year I started to slowly have less fun. And that's not right. So I need that to turn around first, and then consider picking up my company again.
And if I could do anything I wanted, haha. I would want the job I have now, but then being paid for it:). I thought I found that last year, but it turned out differently. So I'll need to search again:).
> That's going to be a problem when he seeks a salaried job -- few employers want an unmotivated, undisciplined employee. If I wanted to hover over the employee and make sure he's doing the work he's supposed to be doing, I'd hire my son.
I can clarify that. When I'm at the workplace this is different. I am motivated and disciplined. I'm at the place where it is expected to work, and that's what I do. Also there's a clear border, when I'm home my workday is over and I don't have to worry about it. Working from home is a lot harder, to me at least, and I heard other people mention it. When I'm home I am usually relaxing a bit, so the place has a complete different association with me. Also there's no clear border, I can work for 7 hours straigt and still feel the rest of the day that I should be doing stuff. Or take a day off, like any normal person, and feel that way the whole day. That gets tired very soon. So I figured out I need a real work environment, and I can't work from home.
I haven't had a disk crash for a long time, but it used to be that when a disk crashed while reading, I could still connect it to a 486 and read all the data on it. I guess the slower computer doesn't stress the disk as much. This was during the IDE days. Now it's all SATA, so I threw the 486 away. There often was data corruption, but without a reliable backup it was the best thing to have.
I think it's a good thing. It might even be better if first IE6 and IE7 support was dropped, and IE8 support later, but that might be a lot of work.
I axpect that for the first few years jQuery 1.9 will be the most used version, but you can afcourse load jQuery 2.0 on newer browsers, and only load 1.9 with conditional comments.
I'm wondering how the big CMSs will handle this. Will Wordpress come with 2 versions for a few years?
Agreed. And running updates regularly on a supported distro should keep you mostly in the clear.
Another thing, the software you install manually, like your CMS for blogging, you will want to keep that updated as well. You can follow those projects on twitter or facebook, so you'll keep uptodate with security fixes. I think this software is the most common attack vector.
I had a Joomla 2.5.0 install that I forgot to update, and just a week ago someone broke into that and added user accounts to it. And it's just software that's half a year old.
While this repair cafe is a single cafe in the country, there's a whole community of second hand shops called Kringloopwinkels. I my town of 116.000 people there are about 9 shops like that. The one I worked at was the biggest, with 2 physical shops and more than 1.000.000 Euro sales. They employ about 85 people, of whom maybe 45 or 50 have a paid job. It's quite a big business, and even with a recession it's a growing business.
It's already too late, but I keep important files with par2 files. That way, when there's like 5% corruption, I can still fix the file. I do this with flac files and some datafiles.
Also make sure you keep backups going. I guess this was your warning. Everyone needs one.
If this whole mess turns south, and Google can't use the current Android anymore, couldn't it just switch the codebase to be a derivative of OpenJDK? Sun/Oracle relaesed OpenJDK under the GPL. That means as long as you use OpenJDK, you can use their copyrighted works. All they would have to do is port the bits from current Android (like the bytecode interpreter and extra classes) to OpenJDK. Then release that as Android 5 or something.
I myself am quite happy with my Blackberry and I'm really curious what they will bring to the table. I really think they should diversify their hardware, bring some qwerty models, like the Curve, Bold and Torch. But also full touchsreen devices, with small screens to bigger screens. Like 3,2" and 3,7" and 4,3" for example. I do think they are still interesting for developers. They will have their own platform. But also Qt support, which might bring in a lot of old Nokia developers. They also support Android, allthough apps for BB-Android need to be repackaged.
Here in Holland we don't use Eurocents anymore. Before the Euro, when we used Dutch Guilders (0,45 Euro) we already stopped using cents. The smallest coin then was 5 cents. When we got the Euro in 2001 we shortly used the Eurocent. But soon it was discarded. Every shop now rounds to 5 Eurocent. Only when you use your debitcard you pay in cents. At first there were some people complaining about losing cents in the rounding, but now most people can accept it. Of course rounding goes both ways anyway. I already think 5 Eurocents is too much hassle to bother with. But I guess that one will last for some years to come.
Yes, technically Mandrake/Mandriva was always innovative. I especially liked the installer and the DrakX tools. System-config-whatever doesn't even come close, and it's been 10 years.
Financially they were always in terrible shape. First there was the investment or loan they had from I think an Americain investor. They controlled management, and decided to head into the directionm of education. The management didn't want that, they wanted to stay in de Linux distro business. That caused the loan/investment to terminate, and there had to be paid millions back in a short timeframe. Later on they had raised money through shares. Still they always needed money from the users, with subscriptions through the Club. There was always the continuous hiring of people, and then the next reorganisation where people had to be let go. It seemed to happen every year. And always there was the promise of becoming profitable next year. I even read in it this news. For me the straw broke when they decided to let all their French developers go, and refocus of Brazilian and Russian developers.
I've used Fedora, but the upgrades every half year were a bit terrible (a whole evening of fiddling). I'm now on Debian. That's one distro that I feel will always be around, and gives lots of freedom.
I'm not sure, but I get the feeling that different groups in the opensource community are struggling to get control of their platform. Gnome peeps are doing their own thing, Ubuntu heads off in another direction. Red Hat does their own things. The last 8 years were somewhat mixed in this regard. There was cooperation, like on freedesktop.org, but olso fragmentation and diversification. Now it all seems to fall apart somewhat. I don't see the different groups come together.
I'm really not fond of some things that are happening, like Systemd and all the other incompatible SysVinit systems. Also the mess that are the main desktops now. Then this new syslog proposal. I doubt other distro's will take this, I expect they will stick with syslog or syslog-ng.
For myself I think I'm going with Debian (testing that is) soon. Once old-school just meant old stuff, but nowadays it almost sounds like the best thing there is. All the new software with less bugs, but not the crummy new inventions which you'd rather let pass by.
I'm not really interested in search, and how fast it is. I hardly use it. I have a simple workflow. I use my inbox (or actually several inboxes) as a todo-list. Everything that's in there has an item I have to look at. When I'm done with the mail, I delete it or pu it in a folder. That way my inbox is clear to look at, and I hardly ever forget to do something, or forget to reply to an email. When I want to search for something (which hardly ever happens) I mostly know what I'm looking for, and can browse through the folder myself.
So for me it's not about wasted time in sorting, and hardly any time won in searching. It's about workflow.
I'm Dutch, and there has been a lot of controversy about this system. One disadvantage of the system is that it's an invasion of privacy. The government now knows exactly where and when you drive.
I just don't understand why it's needed. Currently there's a lot of tax on gasoline, and it has the same function. If you drive a lot, or if your car uses lots of gasoline, you pay more. This system provides the same function, but with a lot of bureaucracy, and an invasion of privacy.
Just 10 seconds after posting I figure out you're asking for the web-application. I don't know if there's a Gmail alternative like Gmail. That's very heavy-weight on javascript. Squirrelmail is rather simple in my opinion. Roundcube is also preferred by a lot of people. A disadvantage of both of them is there's no mobile version. Horde has a mobile version, but I found it quite hard to set up right.
For a mail server I very much prefer Courier Imap. There's also Cyrus, which some people favor, but I like the simplicity of Courier. If you want full blown calendering and groupware, you might look at something else, but that's not what you're asking.
For a mta, most people prefer Postfix, allthough Exim is allright as well.
For configuring your services... At my job we use a VPS from a hosting provider, complete with cPanel. It's a really easy way to get started with it, and add domains and mail addresses.
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One thing I really like is the aspect of 2 cut-and-paste buffers. When I explain it to tech-friends of mine they really are amazed.
There's a primary buffer and a secondary buffer. The secondary buffer is like the buffer in Windows and MacOS. You have Ctrl-C for copy and Ctrl-V for paste. Or you can use the context menus.
The primary buffer however is everything you selected, and then ofcourse only the last selection. Pasting is done with middle mouse button.
This way you can use 2 buffers. Like you Ctrl-C the username, and select the password. Place focus on the other app. Paste the password from the primary buffer, and Ctrl-V the username. All in one go.
I just don't want to live without it.
Thank you for your response. I wish you the best.
A requirement for 20-25 hours a week is because I really need to have my restdays. I can work a week for 5 days, and maybe 2 weeks. But it does wear me out. I get tired, can't get out of bed anymore, and I'm just generally unhappy. And that's just not the right path to take. :).
Right now I work 2 days, have a day off, and then work another day. There are jobs available that suit this rythm, but ofcourse not very much of them. I live in Europe, and the lifestyle is somewhat better. And I should take care not to get hired by an American company
And about other obligations. I have a girlfriend who needs time with me, and I have a healthy social life. So yes, you can call those obligations.
I'm somewhat sensitive to emotional atmosphere. People haveing an argument at the workplace which turns sour, that sort of thing. I can handle something, but too much wears me out.
Ah, haha. I'm not a slacker, I do my job. Last year I started at a paying job, which I decided to not continue with. The employer offered me the same job again half a year later. He was really happy with me.
Thank you for the rest, some others already pointed that out. I'm now with nice people at a volunteer setting. Setting up a commercial company might be a good idea.
Actually, when I got at this volunteer job, there were some other people making that step. So maybe it's time for me to find people to make that step with.
Ah, yes. I should have elaborated in the startpost, but it was too long already.
At my workplace I'm really motivated, and do a lot of work. It's not a problem there.
It's only a problem working from home, because of many different factors.
Thank you for your kind and insightfull response.
Maybe I am too quick at judging that self-employment is not my thing. I don't think I had too high expectations. Some of my goals were to have this year a turn-around of 3000 Euro's, which I might make. And also to have fun at what I do. But during the first 8 months of this year I started to slowly have less fun. And that's not right. So I need that to turn around first, and then consider picking up my company again.
And if I could do anything I wanted, haha. I would want the job I have now, but then being paid for it :). :).
I thought I found that last year, but it turned out differently. So I'll need to search again
> That's going to be a problem when he seeks a salaried job -- few employers want an unmotivated, undisciplined employee. If I wanted to hover over the employee and make sure he's doing the work he's supposed to be doing, I'd hire my son.
I can clarify that.
When I'm at the workplace this is different. I am motivated and disciplined. I'm at the place where it is expected to work, and that's what I do. Also there's a clear border, when I'm home my workday is over and I don't have to worry about it.
Working from home is a lot harder, to me at least, and I heard other people mention it. When I'm home I am usually relaxing a bit, so the place has a complete different association with me. Also there's no clear border, I can work for 7 hours straigt and still feel the rest of the day that I should be doing stuff. Or take a day off, like any normal person, and feel that way the whole day. That gets tired very soon.
So I figured out I need a real work environment, and I can't work from home.
I haven't had a disk crash for a long time, but it used to be that when a disk crashed while reading, I could still connect it to a 486 and read all the data on it. I guess the slower computer doesn't stress the disk as much.
This was during the IDE days. Now it's all SATA, so I threw the 486 away.
There often was data corruption, but without a reliable backup it was the best thing to have.
I think it's a good thing. It might even be better if first IE6 and IE7 support was dropped, and IE8 support later, but that might be a lot of work.
I axpect that for the first few years jQuery 1.9 will be the most used version, but you can afcourse load jQuery 2.0 on newer browsers, and only load 1.9 with conditional comments.
I'm wondering how the big CMSs will handle this. Will Wordpress come with 2 versions for a few years?
Agreed. And running updates regularly on a supported distro should keep you mostly in the clear.
Another thing, the software you install manually, like your CMS for blogging, you will want to keep that updated as well. You can follow those projects on twitter or facebook, so you'll keep uptodate with security fixes.
I think this software is the most common attack vector.
I had a Joomla 2.5.0 install that I forgot to update, and just a week ago someone broke into that and added user accounts to it. And it's just software that's half a year old.
While this repair cafe is a single cafe in the country, there's a whole community of second hand shops called Kringloopwinkels. I my town of 116.000 people there are about 9 shops like that. The one I worked at was the biggest, with 2 physical shops and more than 1.000.000 Euro sales. They employ about 85 people, of whom maybe 45 or 50 have a paid job.
It's quite a big business, and even with a recession it's a growing business.
It's already too late, but I keep important files with par2 files. That way, when there's like 5% corruption, I can still fix the file.
I do this with flac files and some datafiles.
Also make sure you keep backups going. I guess this was your warning. Everyone needs one.
If this whole mess turns south, and Google can't use the current Android anymore, couldn't it just switch the codebase to be a derivative of OpenJDK?
Sun/Oracle relaesed OpenJDK under the GPL. That means as long as you use OpenJDK, you can use their copyrighted works. All they would have to do is port the bits from current Android (like the bytecode interpreter and extra classes) to OpenJDK. Then release that as Android 5 or something.
I myself am quite happy with my Blackberry and I'm really curious what they will bring to the table.
I really think they should diversify their hardware, bring some qwerty models, like the Curve, Bold and Torch. But also full touchsreen devices, with small screens to bigger screens. Like 3,2" and 3,7" and 4,3" for example.
I do think they are still interesting for developers. They will have their own platform. But also Qt support, which might bring in a lot of old Nokia developers. They also support Android, allthough apps for BB-Android need to be repackaged.
Here in Holland we don't use Eurocents anymore. Before the Euro, when we used Dutch Guilders (0,45 Euro) we already stopped using cents. The smallest coin then was 5 cents.
When we got the Euro in 2001 we shortly used the Eurocent. But soon it was discarded. Every shop now rounds to 5 Eurocent. Only when you use your debitcard you pay in cents.
At first there were some people complaining about losing cents in the rounding, but now most people can accept it. Of course rounding goes both ways anyway.
I already think 5 Eurocents is too much hassle to bother with. But I guess that one will last for some years to come.
Interestingly, the Nokia N9 Facebook App has 140.000 users.
Yes, technically Mandrake/Mandriva was always innovative. I especially liked the installer and the DrakX tools. System-config-whatever doesn't even come close, and it's been 10 years.
Financially they were always in terrible shape. First there was the investment or loan they had from I think an Americain investor. They controlled management, and decided to head into the directionm of education. The management didn't want that, they wanted to stay in de Linux distro business. That caused the loan/investment to terminate, and there had to be paid millions back in a short timeframe.
Later on they had raised money through shares. Still they always needed money from the users, with subscriptions through the Club.
There was always the continuous hiring of people, and then the next reorganisation where people had to be let go. It seemed to happen every year.
And always there was the promise of becoming profitable next year. I even read in it this news.
For me the straw broke when they decided to let all their French developers go, and refocus of Brazilian and Russian developers.
I've used Fedora, but the upgrades every half year were a bit terrible (a whole evening of fiddling). I'm now on Debian. That's one distro that I feel will always be around, and gives lots of freedom.
I heard good things about PHPStorm. I haven't used it myself, but you could give it a try.
Like today?
I'm not sure, but I get the feeling that different groups in the opensource community are struggling to get control of their platform. Gnome peeps are doing their own thing, Ubuntu heads off in another direction. Red Hat does their own things.
The last 8 years were somewhat mixed in this regard. There was cooperation, like on freedesktop.org, but olso fragmentation and diversification. Now it all seems to fall apart somewhat. I don't see the different groups come together.
I'm really not fond of some things that are happening, like Systemd and all the other incompatible SysVinit systems. Also the mess that are the main desktops now. Then this new syslog proposal. I doubt other distro's will take this, I expect they will stick with syslog or syslog-ng.
For myself I think I'm going with Debian (testing that is) soon. Once old-school just meant old stuff, but nowadays it almost sounds like the best thing there is. All the new software with less bugs, but not the crummy new inventions which you'd rather let pass by.
I'm not really interested in search, and how fast it is. I hardly use it.
I have a simple workflow. I use my inbox (or actually several inboxes) as a todo-list. Everything that's in there has an item I have to look at.
When I'm done with the mail, I delete it or pu it in a folder. That way my inbox is clear to look at, and I hardly ever forget to do something, or forget to reply to an email.
When I want to search for something (which hardly ever happens) I mostly know what I'm looking for, and can browse through the folder myself.
So for me it's not about wasted time in sorting, and hardly any time won in searching. It's about workflow.
I'm Dutch, and there has been a lot of controversy about this system. One disadvantage of the system is that it's an invasion of privacy. The government now knows exactly where and when you drive.
I just don't understand why it's needed. Currently there's a lot of tax on gasoline, and it has the same function. If you drive a lot, or if your car uses lots of gasoline, you pay more.
This system provides the same function, but with a lot of bureaucracy, and an invasion of privacy.
Just 10 seconds after posting I figure out you're asking for the web-application. I don't know if there's a Gmail alternative like Gmail. That's very heavy-weight on javascript.
Squirrelmail is rather simple in my opinion. Roundcube is also preferred by a lot of people.
A disadvantage of both of them is there's no mobile version. Horde has a mobile version, but I found it quite hard to set up right.
For a mail server I very much prefer Courier Imap. There's also Cyrus, which some people favor, but I like the simplicity of Courier.
If you want full blown calendering and groupware, you might look at something else, but that's not what you're asking.
For a mta, most people prefer Postfix, allthough Exim is allright as well.
For configuring your services... At my job we use a VPS from a hosting provider, complete with cPanel. It's a really easy way to get started with it, and add domains and mail addresses.
That sounds as if Wayland is allright. I just hope it doesn't turn into the next PulseAudio or NetworkManager.