Great, you're supposed to be paying attention to a co-worker's presentation to your boss, you miss something in his presentation that you wanted to make sure was present. He has to tell you in front of your boss that you weren't paying attention. Or if it is not in front of the boss, and your co-worker is teaching something to you and your other co-workers, he has to repeat himself so that you *get* it. IMing people in a meeting is like having a side conversation in a meeting, which is breaking a cardinal rule of effective meetings.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned...but I find picking up the phone just as easy as IM. IM is too casual for business. The main advantage of IM is that it is the thing you use to try and have a casual conversation with a person you do not really know, in the hopes that you'll get to know them better. The phone is very professional, it is expected that the conversation will be short and to the point. I think encouraging short and to the point conversations are much more conducive to corporate productivity. I see IM getting abused as all the guys in the office try and get to know their hot co-worker better.
Columbia University College Conservatives also had an affirmative action bake sale. Yes, it also did cause LOTS of controversy. Like...scandal...like a whole new bureacracy was created, the "Center for Multi-cultural affairs" in response to outcry.
You're getting screwed, costs my district 30 dollars a box. Moreover you then have to put Office on for an additional 30 dollars a box. As a tech coordinator its VERY irresponsible to charge your school $60,000 for every full upgrade cycle when there are free alternatives.
Colinux works, only the work to get the (co)linux native X server to work through colinux has stalled. You have to use a windows native X server to view the running x clients on the colinux process. That majorly sucks...but besides that, the colinux terminal is just as stellar as a native linux terminal.:-)
Wrong,
It is NOT stealing. They own the COPYRIGHT to the software. It is COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, to illegally copy the software. There is no relation to theft. Theft is the term people use to get other upset. Don't fuck up your terms.
Yeah, so I got hit by it. First, it was only gmail.google.com that went down for me. All of the other parts of google worked fine. That was because my dnsclient on XP had cached the ip of the gmail server that I was using, while the my machine went to the google.com dns server to find gmail. I was on an undependable wireless connection at the time...so I thought it was some funky blocking scheme that my wireless isp was doing. I go back home to my hardwired connection, and it is still not working. I then started making a slashdot article and began doing a little more research because the rest of google seemed to work fine(funnily)...with a "ipconfig/flushdns"...it all seemed to start working again, I just thought the servers that cached in my dns had been taken offline and my dnsclient was being crap. So I canceled the article, the problem was resolved.
It really is not important that corporations use Linux. Corporate support for OSS work is nice, but OSS has no need for it. Corporations are not going to do what is best for everybody but only what is best for them. If another solution suits corporations, that is fine for them. Who cares if the best solution for them is Microsoft. Why do OSS people want unskilled computer workers at Corperation X use our software when all they're going to be able to do is parasite and complain (like they do for Microsoft). OSS people like the ego boost that major corporations are using their software, but once corporations begin dictating what OSS people do, "It's not fun anymore". In Conclusion, Corporations should not be dictating what OSS people do in their spare time, OSS people really should not try to attract social parasites.
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It is not Linux _will_ never become more than a garage project, it is Linux _should_ never become more than a garage project. Believe me we'll all be a lot happier.
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Note, I have no Kharma to burn.
Yea! Hopefully, now since cross platform OSS programs can now use QT, the GTK will die an awful awful death. No more hassle making custom widgets in C. Thank the lord. I hope that there is at least some very good competition between QT and GTK now. They are now fighting on relatively equal licensing ground now.
I really hope this environment becomes very stable. Then I hope that while maintaining this environment at the requirements of only 200MHZ, then they create a more processor expensive icons/theme to represent modern GUI functionality/eyecandy. Then...I hope that mozilla makes a OPENSTEP port. It'll be a very close derivative to the Apple version. Then I hope eclipse follows...Then...the sun java follows with a swing port onto GNUstep. Pretty much all those programs that I use that currently use GTK on linux. Gaim...will of course be a hopeless case (GTK is engrained in that sucker like none other). This technology looks like it could be very stable. The kind of work I'd expect from the GNU project. I can't wait for the completed GNU project...(though I could probably care least about the kernel...boo to Hurd, unless it can handle linux drivers). I hope the unix desktops can finally unite under a common desktop, that way I can stop running two different gui libraries on my computer. But, this is probably all relatively unrealistic for the next decade.:(
With ReiserFS find / | grep "esoteric-file" is pretty damn fast, under a minute. But not like the 2 seconds searches that the desktop googling people are talking about.
This linux laptop is horrible, You can wait for your computer to charge 3.5 hours for a 1.5 battery life. Ick. It's so bad it makes me want to choke.
*Sarcasm* At least it runs linux */Sarcasm*
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I thought I had Karma to burn...untill I didn't have Karma to burn.
Try Colinux, www.colinux.org out. You'll see what that the poster was talking about. Linux works pretty damn fast on top of windows. (Or...at least much much faster than I expected)
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Great, you're supposed to be paying attention to a co-worker's presentation to your boss, you miss something in his presentation that you wanted to make sure was present. He has to tell you in front of your boss that you weren't paying attention. Or if it is not in front of the boss, and your co-worker is teaching something to you and your other co-workers, he has to repeat himself so that you *get* it. IMing people in a meeting is like having a side conversation in a meeting, which is breaking a cardinal rule of effective meetings.
Maybe I'm just old fashioned...but I find picking up the phone just as easy as IM. IM is too casual for business. The main advantage of IM is that it is the thing you use to try and have a casual conversation with a person you do not really know, in the hopes that you'll get to know them better. The phone is very professional, it is expected that the conversation will be short and to the point. I think encouraging short and to the point conversations are much more conducive to corporate productivity. I see IM getting abused as all the guys in the office try and get to know their hot co-worker better.
What US money? The US's last check cut to the UN was around September 12, 2001. The UN is doing just fine without US money.
Columbia University College Conservatives also had an affirmative action bake sale. Yes, it also did cause LOTS of controversy. Like...scandal...like a whole new bureacracy was created, the "Center for Multi-cultural affairs" in response to outcry.
Don't forget the tons of uranium being pumped into the atmosphere by the coal plants. Coal contains quite a bit of uranium.
You're getting screwed, costs my district 30 dollars a box. Moreover you then have to put Office on for an additional 30 dollars a box. As a tech coordinator its VERY irresponsible to charge your school $60,000 for every full upgrade cycle when there are free alternatives.
Colinux works, only the work to get the (co)linux native X server to work through colinux has stalled. You have to use a windows native X server to view the running x clients on the colinux process. That majorly sucks...but besides that, the colinux terminal is just as stellar as a native linux terminal. :-)
California refines it's own gasoline. It uses a different cocktail of gasoline than the rest of the country. But natural gas, etc you got me there.
Wrong, It is NOT stealing. They own the COPYRIGHT to the software. It is COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT, to illegally copy the software. There is no relation to theft. Theft is the term people use to get other upset. Don't fuck up your terms.
Finally, something that ATI can look at and realize that they are loosing business for their crappy graphics drivers.
This guy is full of bullshit. He's just scaremongering.
So, I load the slashdot applet in the customized google. The top post is "Google's New Personalized Homepage".
Here here, my processor right now is running at 125F.
Yeah, so I got hit by it. First, it was only gmail.google.com that went down for me. All of the other parts of google worked fine. That was because my dnsclient on XP had cached the ip of the gmail server that I was using, while the my machine went to the google.com dns server to find gmail. I was on an undependable wireless connection at the time...so I thought it was some funky blocking scheme that my wireless isp was doing. I go back home to my hardwired connection, and it is still not working. I then started making a slashdot article and began doing a little more research because the rest of google seemed to work fine(funnily) ...with a "ipconfig /flushdns" ...it all seemed to start working again, I just thought the servers that cached in my dns had been taken offline and my dnsclient was being crap. So I canceled the article, the problem was resolved.
Yeah, That's exactly how it sounds.
Yeah, I used that kind of rig for 5 years. You know as well as I, that it runs fine...but painfully slow.
It really is not important that corporations use Linux. Corporate support for OSS work is nice, but OSS has no need for it. Corporations are not going to do what is best for everybody but only what is best for them. If another solution suits corporations, that is fine for them. Who cares if the best solution for them is Microsoft. Why do OSS people want unskilled computer workers at Corperation X use our software when all they're going to be able to do is parasite and complain (like they do for Microsoft). OSS people like the ego boost that major corporations are using their software, but once corporations begin dictating what OSS people do, "It's not fun anymore". In Conclusion, Corporations should not be dictating what OSS people do in their spare time, OSS people really should not try to attract social parasites. ------- It is not Linux _will_ never become more than a garage project, it is Linux _should_ never become more than a garage project. Believe me we'll all be a lot happier. ------- Note, I have no Kharma to burn.
haha, that flash was great.
Yea! Hopefully, now since cross platform OSS programs can now use QT, the GTK will die an awful awful death. No more hassle making custom widgets in C. Thank the lord. I hope that there is at least some very good competition between QT and GTK now. They are now fighting on relatively equal licensing ground now.
I really hope this environment becomes very stable. Then I hope that while maintaining this environment at the requirements of only 200MHZ, then they create a more processor expensive icons/theme to represent modern GUI functionality/eyecandy. Then...I hope that mozilla makes a OPENSTEP port. It'll be a very close derivative to the Apple version. Then I hope eclipse follows...Then...the sun java follows with a swing port onto GNUstep. Pretty much all those programs that I use that currently use GTK on linux. Gaim...will of course be a hopeless case (GTK is engrained in that sucker like none other). This technology looks like it could be very stable. The kind of work I'd expect from the GNU project. I can't wait for the completed GNU project...(though I could probably care least about the kernel...boo to Hurd, unless it can handle linux drivers). I hope the unix desktops can finally unite under a common desktop, that way I can stop running two different gui libraries on my computer. But, this is probably all relatively unrealistic for the next decade. :(
With ReiserFS find / | grep "esoteric-file" is pretty damn fast, under a minute. But not like the 2 seconds searches that the desktop googling people are talking about.
This linux laptop is horrible, You can wait for your computer to charge 3.5 hours for a 1.5 battery life. Ick. It's so bad it makes me want to choke. *Sarcasm* At least it runs linux */Sarcasm* --- I thought I had Karma to burn...untill I didn't have Karma to burn.
Wait... are you using the linux nvidia drivers in BSD?
Try Colinux, www.colinux.org out. You'll see what that the poster was talking about. Linux works pretty damn fast on top of windows. (Or ...at least much much faster than I expected)
Yep "find / | grep whatever-I-Want" works great for me too