Actually, for me, just Corel Ventura Publisher. Now that GEM has been open sourced, we could have a really high resolution publishing app. that was world winning 20 years ago and still pretty good even stacked up against some of the things we have today.
Not enough details here to make informed advice try the following for a start:
Questions. Is the company reliant on IT? What is it worth in £million? Do they care about IT enough for you to make a huge fuss and be listened to?
If you are just a Linux admin - and they've lots of Windows admins in a huge company - you are a small cog in a large, crushing machine. If you are supposed to be bringing up their Linux skills and nothing more, do that to the best of your ability and leave.
If your job is to transition some (more) of their estate to Linux AND you have the remit to do it:
Talk to the beancounters about risk management: costs of change vs. vulnerabilities vs costs of remediation * Make friends with the Windows administrators. Get them to share their main pain points with you: work co-operatively to produce a hitlist of things they want to see fixed as far as you can * Bring what Linux machines you have up to date: get patching for these handled correctly. * Work out where you can usefully expand the Linux estate to fix the Windows admins hitlist. Then grow out gradually
If you get to talk security posture, hardening, firewalls
Talk to the beancounters about risk management: costs of damage from penetration/loss of data vs. vulnerabilities vs costs of remediation
Either of Peter I island or Bouvet Island. Both isolate dependencies of Norway - so overall state surveillance shouldn't be a problem. Physical geography means they're unlikely to be snooped on by unfriendly governments.
are you unaware that the majority of it is open source? Therefore there's far more than 4 people looking at the code
And can't be compiled with open source tools - there's a reason it's in Debian contrib rather than main. Also - a whole load of functionality, like functioning USB - depends on Oracle non-free components and extensions. Oracle and licensing is a no-no for any FLOSS developer.
Parent - check. Cue incredulity that she can combine work and family life.
Lesbian - check. Oh, that's OK - her marital status gets a mention as does the fact that she's separated (so presumably her estranged wife is looking after the kids for her.)
Any chance of a sensible in depth, hard hitting article detailing how well she's doing in the teeth of opposition, lack of mandate and innate technical conservatism?
Ken's real - and is working hard in Texas as ever he was. Helios Project - affiliated with SPI - joined with another charity Reglue and they're still attempting to get computers to needy children and adults locally to them.
Most Germans speak and write better English than I do - and I'm posting this from the UK. For German, at least, it probably doesn't help to have had several attempts at reforming German orthography within the last 30 years.In the same period, I _think_ Dutch has had one major spelling reform.
+1 to the person suggesting formal German hochdeutsch: also, for the historically inclined, it may now be safe to start teaching how to read fraktur / black letter type again or the German speaking nations will miss out entirely on the original books and literature pre 1930 or so.
I don't have a business support contract with Oracle - I don't actually have any obviously Oracle products here at the moment.
If I _DID_ have a business support contract with Oracle for any product, I think thiis would persuade me that my money was wasted: this sort of little thing drags down a big business reputation. Oracle may have fantastic databases, middleware, people management software, hardware, Linux OS, Java - in rough order of importance to Oracle - but this shows that they can't be trusted to do well with small things.I'd trust their lawyers to draft a good contract, favourable to them but I can't trust them to know their own products, own codebase or even what they have to do with them.
Run, don't walk away from Oracle products as fast as you practicably can or find someone else to support them for you at added cost to you since you can't rely on Oracle and produce a backout plan to move your business away from Oracle dependence immediately.
If you've been a student - get recommendations from your supervisors. Carry some academic credentials so that you can get to universities / higher education institutes / academic libraries. If you can afford it, take a course in a European universtiy for a semester or two. Connectivity may well be the biggest / most expensive problem.
Hammer out visas ahead of time - make contingency arrangements to transfer money - one of the hardest things will probably be moving living expenses around.
Find software developers to hang around with in the areas you're moving to next. contribute to FLOSS in an international team before you go?
Be prepared to learn (human) languages as needed, even if only enough to order food from a street stall / cafe or whatever. Be prepared to live like a local and life is always easier.
All this is good. Shortbread and cakes made with your daughters, family meals enjoyed if you can. Family recipes which bring back laughter and times shared. My Dad still has a lump in his throat when he talks about his mother's shortbread / berates her for always leaving him to do the cooking:) I remember my grandmother just before she died hiding sweets for me in her bedclothes and telling me stories. Hugs and smells and memories of perfume. Being told what the flowers are in her favourite garden / making mud pies - whatever it takes to have physical experiences too.
I have relatively mild cerebral palsy. Some problems working with my hands, a stutter very occasionally which gets worse with nerves. I'm bloody lucky. Fine muscular control also, obviously, affects the larynx. A good many of my friends have scanning speech/slurred speech as well as muscle control problems. Intention tremor, where something gets harder to do the more you concentrate on it, is also not uncommon. Once you can find the appropriate solution for somebody, you can watch them grow in confidence and ability to communicate freely. Voice input is fine for the visually impaired but it's not a catch-all. I'm not sure I'd trust it for more than "Open the pod bay doors Hal"
Former work: German Navy Enigma machine. [At home] WW II AR88 receiver / contemporary Morse key / 1927 BBC radio. Working laptop - 386SX/16 from ??1992??
It's been pointed out that it's a good idea to read the release notes BEFORE upgrading in place. There may be kernel changes, daemons need to stop/start and a recommended procedure is in place to try and make this as painless as possible. READ THE RELEASE NOTES BEFORE BLINDLY UPGRADING PLEASE:) Did I mention release notes? They're cool you know and they can save you some time/worry/frustration. There are release notes provided, please use them...:)
The source is a brief comment from me - which kdawson redacted. Preparations for release are continuing -.iso images are being built and "stuff" is happening. 3.1r6 was released late last night, as planned and on schedule..iso's for that should be built after Etch's formal release. Various minor changes have already taken place - the last bit is the big final check and symlink switch over. oldstable -> sarge, stable -> etch, testing -> lenny. On past form, the website news may lag slightly, though this is not intentional. There will be support for sarge for a period - upgrades should be (relatively) seamless.
Debian has suffered from problems EVERY year since 1.0 was released by Infomagic:) It's still here - I still rely on it and base much of my daily work on it. People like you and me have been bickering since before the deity naming wars:) I just hope Ian M. remembers that Debian is now just about the only Linux to support even some of the oldest Sun hardware. Perhaps he can persuade them that it's worth supporting Debian vice Red Hat/Novell or even Sun JDS.
On the other hand, I think he'd be worth double if he could follow up on the packaging rants on his blog lately and just persuade Solaris to support dpkg / dselect and apt-get. Apt-get install sun-java works flawlessly for me
on Debian: I just wish it were as easy to install gcc and GNU userland on older Solaris releases.
Whatever happened to your UserLinux and Linux for hams projects - did they effectively get subsumed by time pressure?
I think everyone's missing a point here. If I'm in Cambodia, I need software in Khmer, Thailand in Thai, Myanmar in Burmese. Open Source can provide that: Microsoft can't because it's uneconomic. [Try getting software in Icelandic for 200 000 people]. Linux is localised even for small language communities like Bhutan. Linux will work on older hardware.
Debian Stable - release cycle on about 18 months
and support for up to a year after that. Debian repositories and archives have versions back about ten years - so you should always be able to upgrade. Debian testing and unstable are updated
at least daily - stable only when there are security fixes. If you mean "paid for" enterprise Linux then Red Hat is now at 7 years or so support
- but stuff changes with the interim updates as far as I can see.
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Actually, for me, just Corel Ventura Publisher. Now that GEM has been open sourced, we could have a really high resolution publishing app. that was world winning 20 years ago and still pretty good even stacked up against some of the things we have today.
It's courts martial A marshal is something else and Marshall is only an amplifier (though the later series will go up to 11 :) )
Apparently, in the Rolls-Royce car factory, they referred to them as Rollses-Royce :)
1. You get the chance to overspec case silencing components, slow running fans / fanless configuration. You woun't care about noise - until you do
2. You get to specify memory specs / hard drive specs / processors
3. You get the chance to specify your graphics card - especially useful if you're dual booting Linux
4. You get the chance to specify a case size that you can work with / no tool assembly
5 If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces - but you can also upgrade at your own pace
Not enough details here to make informed advice try the following for a start:
Questions. Is the company reliant on IT? What is it worth in £million? Do they care about IT enough for you to make a huge fuss and be listened to?
If you are just a Linux admin - and they've lots of Windows admins in a huge company - you are a small cog in a large, crushing machine. If you are supposed to be bringing up their Linux skills and nothing more, do that to the best of your ability and leave.
If your job is to transition some (more) of their estate to Linux AND you have the remit to do it:
Talk to the beancounters about risk management: costs of change vs. vulnerabilities vs costs of remediation
* Make friends with the Windows administrators. Get them to share their main pain points with you: work co-operatively to produce a hitlist of things they want to
see fixed as far as you can
* Bring what Linux machines you have up to date: get patching for these handled correctly.
* Work out where you can usefully expand the Linux estate to fix the Windows admins hitlist.
Then grow out gradually
If you get to talk security posture, hardening, firewalls
Talk to the beancounters about risk management: costs of damage from penetration/loss of data vs. vulnerabilities vs costs of remediation
Either of Peter I island or Bouvet Island. Both isolate dependencies of Norway - so overall state surveillance shouldn't be a problem. Physical geography means they're unlikely to be snooped on by unfriendly governments.
are you unaware that the majority of it is open source? Therefore there's far more than 4 people looking at the code
And can't be compiled with open source tools - there's a reason it's in Debian contrib rather than main. Also - a whole load of functionality, like functioning USB - depends on Oracle non-free components and extensions. Oracle and licensing is a no-no for any FLOSS developer.
Competent CTO - check.
White House CTO - check
MIT and Google - check.
Woman - check. Cue misogyny on all sides.
Parent - check. Cue incredulity that she can combine work and family life.
Lesbian - check. Oh, that's OK - her marital status gets a mention as does the fact that she's separated (so presumably her estranged wife is looking after the kids for her.)
Any chance of a sensible in depth, hard hitting article detailing how well she's doing in the teeth of opposition, lack of mandate and innate technical conservatism?
Ken's real - and is working hard in Texas as ever he was. Helios Project - affiliated with SPI - joined with another charity Reglue and they're still attempting to get computers to needy children and adults locally to them.
Most Germans speak and write better English than I do - and I'm posting this from the UK. For German, at least, it probably doesn't help to have had several attempts at reforming German orthography within the last 30 years.In the same period, I _think_ Dutch has had one major spelling reform.
+1 to the person suggesting formal German hochdeutsch: also, for the historically inclined, it may now be safe to start teaching how to read fraktur / black letter type again or the German speaking nations will miss out entirely on the original books and literature pre 1930 or so.
I don't have a business support contract with Oracle - I don't actually have any obviously Oracle products here at the moment.
If I _DID_ have a business support contract with Oracle for any product, I think thiis would persuade me that my money was wasted: this sort of little thing drags down a big business reputation. Oracle may have fantastic databases, middleware, people management software, hardware, Linux OS, Java - in rough order of importance to Oracle - but this shows that they can't be trusted to do well with small things.I'd trust their lawyers to draft a good contract, favourable to them but I can't trust them to know their own products, own codebase or even what they have to do with them.
Run, don't walk away from Oracle products as fast as you practicably can or find someone else to support them for you at added cost to you since you can't rely on Oracle and produce a backout plan to move your business away from Oracle dependence immediately.
If you've been a student - get recommendations from your supervisors. Carry some academic credentials so that you can get to universities / higher education institutes / academic libraries. If you can afford it, take a course in a European universtiy for a semester or two. Connectivity may well be the biggest / most expensive problem.
Hammer out visas ahead of time - make contingency arrangements to transfer money - one of the hardest things will probably be moving living expenses around.
Find software developers to hang around with in the areas you're moving to next. contribute to FLOSS in an international team before you go?
Be prepared to learn (human) languages as needed, even if only enough to order food from a street stall / cafe or whatever. Be prepared to live like a local and life is always easier.
Wubi
Virtualbox and a standard virtual image
Pack an ubuntu mirror - if network access is slow, it will help.
As others have suggested, LTSP will work if you set the machines to boot from the network.
All this is good. Shortbread and cakes made with your daughters, family meals enjoyed if you can. Family recipes which bring back laughter and times shared. My Dad still has a lump in his throat when he talks about his mother's shortbread / berates her for always leaving him to do the cooking :) I remember my grandmother just before she died hiding sweets for me in her bedclothes and telling me stories. Hugs and smells and memories of perfume. Being told what the flowers are in her favourite garden / making mud pies - whatever it takes to have physical experiences too.
But is it faster than the 5000 char per second / 30 mile an hour tape I have on MY Colossus Mk 1?
[http://www.bletchleypark.org]
I have relatively mild cerebral palsy. Some problems working with my hands, a stutter very occasionally which gets worse with nerves. I'm bloody lucky. Fine muscular control also, obviously, affects the larynx. A good many of my friends have scanning speech/slurred speech as well as muscle control problems. Intention tremor, where something gets harder to do the more you concentrate on it, is also not uncommon. Once you can find the appropriate solution for somebody, you can watch them grow in confidence and ability to communicate freely. Voice input is fine for the visually impaired but it's not a catch-all. I'm not sure I'd trust it for more than "Open the pod bay doors Hal"
Former work: German Navy Enigma machine. [At home] WW II AR88 receiver / contemporary Morse key / 1927 BBC radio. Working laptop - 386SX/16 from ??1992??
Talk to the Bhutanese Govt. They're now using a Debian variant with localised scripts for Dzongha. Debian includes some Tibetan fonts.
That should give you 20,000 apps to leverage :) Christian Perrier who co-ordinates some of the Debian translation work may know more.
Done. Mirrors synching - release announcement on its way. CD images available. Signed off by Debian release manager. Etch is go :)
It's been pointed out that it's a good idea to read the release notes BEFORE upgrading in place. There may be kernel changes, daemons need to stop/start and a recommended procedure is in place to try and make this as painless as possible. READ THE RELEASE NOTES BEFORE BLINDLY UPGRADING PLEASE :) Did I mention release notes? They're cool you know and they can save you some time/worry/frustration. There are release notes provided, please use them ... :)
The source is a brief comment from me - which kdawson redacted. Preparations for release are continuing - .iso images are being built and "stuff" is happening. 3.1r6 was released late last night, as planned and on schedule. .iso's for that should be built after Etch's formal release. Various minor changes have already taken place - the last bit is the big final check and symlink switch over. oldstable -> sarge, stable -> etch, testing -> lenny. On past form, the website news may lag slightly, though this is not intentional. There will be support for sarge for a period - upgrades should be (relatively) seamless.
AMD64 / EM64T is in Etch as a fully supported part of a stable Debian release.
Increase the verbosity level by adding v to -v :) Interesting literary reference as well :)
so -vv -vvv -vvv
Debian has suffered from problems EVERY year since 1.0 was released by Infomagic :) It's still here - I still rely on it and base much of my daily work on it. People like you and me have been bickering since before the deity naming wars :) I just hope Ian M. remembers that Debian is now just about the only Linux to support even some of the oldest Sun hardware. Perhaps he can persuade them that it's worth supporting Debian vice Red Hat/Novell or even Sun JDS.
On the other hand, I think he'd be worth double if he could follow up on the packaging rants on his blog lately and just persuade Solaris to support dpkg / dselect and apt-get. Apt-get install sun-java works flawlessly for me
on Debian: I just wish it were as easy to install gcc and GNU userland on older Solaris releases.
Whatever happened to your UserLinux and Linux for hams projects - did they effectively get subsumed by time pressure?
I think everyone's missing a point here. If I'm in Cambodia, I need software in Khmer, Thailand in Thai, Myanmar in Burmese. Open Source can provide that: Microsoft can't because it's uneconomic. [Try getting software in Icelandic for 200 000 people]. Linux is localised even for small language communities like Bhutan. Linux will work on older hardware.
Debian Stable - release cycle on about 18 months and support for up to a year after that. Debian repositories and archives have versions back about ten years - so you should always be able to upgrade. Debian testing and unstable are updated at least daily - stable only when there are security fixes. If you mean "paid for" enterprise Linux then Red Hat is now at 7 years or so support - but stuff changes with the interim updates as far as I can see.