I haven't fully migrated off of Windows yet, but more and more of my day to computer time is spent on Linux.
For me, it is the applications and the general look and feel upgrades that continually get better and surprise me. I'm currently using Suse 9.3, and have experimented with Ubuntu 5.10 which was a very pleasent surprise.
Main experiences that are moving me to Linux: 1.) I know that about every six months i'll see a new Suse, Ubuntu and OpenBSD distribution, and I know that there will never be a financial cost to upgrading (unless of course, i choose to donate to companies supporting open source software, by purchasing their retail products.) 2.) Firefox. -- It has a very comfortable feel similar to the same version under Windows. 3.) OpenOffice. -- I've recently used the spread sheet and drawing program as at the moment, i didn't have access to MS Office or Viso, and I was like "hey, this is slick. and it just works!" I was also very easily able to export my document to PDF so that i could email it to somebody in a format that I knew they could view easily. 4.) K3B. CD/DVD burning is just easy, powerful, and included in the distributions. 5.) USB support. I recently attended a class using a Linux laptop where the instructor passed around a USB mini storage drive as a way to hand out materials, i was nervous that I may not be able to use it, but again i was pleasently surprise that "it just worked". I popped in the USB device and a window appeared showing the contents of the drive. 6.) Misc applications. Almost anything day to day task that i would do on a computer (even if i personally haven't done it yet.....I could probably find an application for it in my full Suse distribution. There is just an enormous amount of applications available for the platform that are "good enough" for most things that a person wants/needs to do. 7.) Suse Installation -- Just easy. Nice graphics 8.) New Ubuntu experience. Nothing I can put my finger on, but it just like a well laid out product that is awesome to have for free. I was a bit confused at the no root password thing at first, but now quite like keeping it password free and using sudo. 9.) Network configuration has always been a breeze for me on Linux (with exception for wireless). 10.) Backups. It is fairly easy to do automated but simple tar/ssh based backups across multiple machines where i can set it up, and basically never touch it again. (and there are plenty of documented backup solutions available on the internet as well). Windows solutions don't seem as easy or automated. Even if i have to just push a button, i'll forget at some point, and that'll be the day the harddrive fails and i'll lose some important data. 11.) Remote access. Doesn't matter where i am, i can usually find a computer somewhere to download putty, and log into my machines. 12.) Server capabilities. I run a family website, web based mail server (Qmail/Horde), FTP server on my servers, and will be installing mythtv shortly. Its just cool that the mail server that my family uses is better than the yahoo/gmail/hotmail service that is available, because of all the addon packages that are available. 13.) Development environment. I'm a software developer, and it is cool, that I can setup my computer at home to have a near identical development and deployment environment to the one we use at my place of employment. So much of my education at home is relevant to my work, and so much of my on the job training is relevant to my personal hobbies at home. I can replicate an as reliable/robust family website as my companies web site is, using the same development tools and server software that we use at work. That is just cool that an individual has the capability/capacity to do things like that. 14.) VNC. The new VNC client/server software packages allow me to full-screen my Linux desktop on my Windows OS (or vice-versa), and allow me to have access to my linux boxes, like my monitor was attached to the box. This allows for a s
Make your pass phrase self incriminating. A hypothetical example of a pass phrase might be: "I stole a candy bar from Joe's Grocery Store". Then, be sure to tell the judge that your pass phrase alone, is a statement which would directly incriminate you of a crime, and thus, you must not be compelled to reveal it.
I went to a local used PC store, bought a small form factor DELL desktop GX110 i think (for $40), put an old cd-rom drive that i had lying around (for convenience only), and two 3com 3c905c ethernet ($10-$15 each) cards in it, (although i've installed it just fine on new/cheap netgear cards), which matched the onboard chipset, and installed OpenBSD on it.
There are numerous web pages on how to setup OpenBSD as a very good firewall, plus plenty of documentation on openbsd.org's FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html.
I first ran a firewall on FreeBSD 4.4, then decided to try out OpenBSD and pf, and was very pleasently surprised at the ease in setting up a powerful and easy to maintain firewall box.
I can testify to that point. The HR folks are generally given a boiler plate job description in which they ask if you have the specified skills. They usually don't even know what the acronyms stand for.
Competent/confident individuals should just appease the HR folks with yes/yes/yes/..., and then talk to a technical person at the next stage to see what the company is looking for, and if you are a good fit.
And those ratings of 1 to 5 are very subjective, and think of some of the idiots you've worked with in the past, and what rating they would chose for themselves, and then chose your own accordingly.
Realistically I might consider myself a 3-4 level at a particular skill (because I know there is ALWAYS, much, much more to learn), but for an HR screening interview, i'm always a 5 for the critical skills.
What if the GPL were to contain a mandatory item, requiring a company to have a publicly declared stance on the GPL.
And the license would forbid any company who's "current" stance was anti-GPL. Thus, all the company had to do, when the current management got a clue, or changed over, was publicly change its stance. There would be no perpetual'ality to the license provision, but any anti-GPL company would be liable for using GPL'd code, while it was in an anti-GPL stance (i.e. public statements by its execuatives.)
well, to each his own i guess. Now i have an incentive to get off my ass and create a project that is succesful enough to garner community support, even with the slightly non-free/non-SCO modification to the license.
There would be nothing stopping me from creating such a license, nor non-SCO folks from using the product. I just wouldn't be "in" with the purists i guess.
Actually, the source would still be "open", and SCO could look at the code, just not touch it, or use it. And, it would still be FREE, just not to SCO, there would be no available way for SCO to use the projects code, even though they could drool over it.
I might consider changing the modified license so that any company that Darl McBride was affiliated with, would not be able to use the projects code.:-)
If i were leading an open-source project under any open-souce license....personally, I would modify the license to specifically prohibit SCO, and any companies that SCO has ownership in, and any companies that have ownership in SCO from ever using the project's source code, binaries, trademarks, etc, in any way what so ever.
I might also prohibit any company, whose execuatives talk any smack against the GPL.
Wouldn't it be pretty simple to tax at point of sale for wifi devices? and/or tax on imports of wifi devices?
I guess for annually recurring taxes, a government might require some sort of registration, in order to purchase wifi devices, and then basically license there use???
I'm using this naming convention right now for my family website. And I would have used it as soon as i got my family domain name in 1999, had i had access to change my DNS records.
I mean if you have a family website and you want to give each family member their own personal area, wouldn't http://jane.doe.com and http://john.doe.com, etc be an obvious way to do it? Of course with emails being john@doe.com and jane@doe.com???
This patent doesn't need prior art to be overturned.....a reasonable person would easily come up with this on their own as i have.
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I haven't fully migrated off of Windows yet, but more and more of my day to computer time is spent on Linux.
For me, it is the applications and the general look and feel upgrades that continually get better and surprise me. I'm currently using Suse 9.3, and have experimented with Ubuntu 5.10 which was a very pleasent surprise.
Main experiences that are moving me to Linux:
1.) I know that about every six months i'll see a new Suse, Ubuntu and OpenBSD distribution,
and I know that there will never be a financial cost to upgrading (unless of course, i choose to donate to companies supporting open source software, by purchasing their retail products.)
2.) Firefox. -- It has a very comfortable feel similar to the same version under Windows.
3.) OpenOffice. -- I've recently used the spread sheet and drawing program as at the moment, i didn't have access to MS Office or Viso, and I was like "hey, this is slick. and it just works!" I was also very easily able to export my document to PDF so that i could email it to somebody in a format that I knew they could view easily.
4.) K3B. CD/DVD burning is just easy, powerful, and included in the distributions.
5.) USB support. I recently attended a class using a Linux laptop where the instructor passed around a USB mini storage drive as a way to hand out materials, i was nervous that I may not be able to use it, but again i was pleasently surprise that "it just worked". I popped in the USB device and a window appeared showing the contents of the drive.
6.) Misc applications. Almost anything day to day task that i would do on a computer (even if i personally haven't done it yet.....I could probably find an application for it in my full Suse distribution. There is just an enormous amount of applications available for the platform that are "good enough" for most things that a person wants/needs to do.
7.) Suse Installation -- Just easy. Nice graphics
8.) New Ubuntu experience. Nothing I can put my finger on, but it just like a well laid out product that is awesome to have for free. I was a bit confused at the no root password thing at first, but now quite like keeping it password free and using sudo.
9.) Network configuration has always been a breeze for me on Linux (with exception for wireless).
10.) Backups. It is fairly easy to do automated but simple tar/ssh based backups across multiple machines where i can set it up, and basically never touch it again. (and there are plenty of documented backup solutions available on the internet as well). Windows solutions don't seem as easy or automated. Even if i have to just push a button, i'll forget at some point, and that'll be the day the harddrive fails and i'll lose some important data.
11.) Remote access. Doesn't matter where i am, i can usually find a computer somewhere to download putty, and log into my machines.
12.) Server capabilities. I run a family website, web based mail server (Qmail/Horde), FTP server on my servers, and will be installing mythtv shortly. Its just cool that the mail server that my family uses is better than the yahoo/gmail/hotmail service that is available, because of all the addon packages that are available.
13.) Development environment. I'm a software developer, and it is cool, that I can setup my computer at home to have a near identical development and deployment environment to the one we use at my place of employment. So much of my education at home is relevant to my work, and so much of my on the job training is relevant to my personal hobbies at home. I can replicate an as reliable/robust family website as my companies web site is, using the same development tools and server software that we use at work. That is just cool that an individual has the capability/capacity to do things like that.
14.) VNC. The new VNC client/server software packages allow me to full-screen my Linux desktop on my Windows OS (or vice-versa), and allow me to have access to my linux boxes, like my monitor was attached to the box. This allows for a s
>>What a ridiculous article. The article points out that AMD has captured a significant portion of the consumer mind-share, which is very interesting.
Make your pass phrase self incriminating. A hypothetical example of a pass phrase might be: "I stole a candy bar from Joe's Grocery Store". Then, be sure to tell the judge that your pass phrase alone, is a statement which would directly incriminate you of a crime, and thus, you must not be compelled to reveal it.
Problem Solved.
I went to a local used PC store, bought a small form factor DELL desktop GX110 i think (for $40), put an old cd-rom drive that i had lying around (for convenience only), and two 3com 3c905c ethernet ($10-$15 each) cards in it, (although i've installed it just fine on new/cheap netgear cards), which matched the onboard chipset, and installed OpenBSD on it.
There are numerous web pages on how to setup OpenBSD as a very good firewall, plus plenty of documentation on openbsd.org's FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html.
I first ran a firewall on FreeBSD 4.4, then decided to try out OpenBSD and pf, and was very pleasently surprised at the ease in setting up a powerful and easy to maintain firewall box.
I can testify to that point. The HR folks are generally given a boiler plate job description in which they ask if you have the specified skills. They usually don't even know what the acronyms stand for.
Competent/confident individuals should just appease the HR folks with yes/yes/yes/..., and then talk to a technical person at the next stage to see what the company is looking for, and if you are a good fit.
And those ratings of 1 to 5 are very subjective, and think of some of the idiots you've worked with in the past, and what rating they would chose for themselves, and then chose your own accordingly.
Realistically I might consider myself a 3-4 level at a particular skill (because I know there is ALWAYS, much, much more to learn), but for an HR screening interview, i'm always a 5 for the critical skills.
What if the GPL were to contain a mandatory item, requiring a company to have a publicly declared stance on the GPL.
And the license would forbid any company who's "current" stance was anti-GPL. Thus, all the company had to do, when the current management got a clue, or changed over, was publicly change its stance. There would be no perpetual'ality to the license provision, but any anti-GPL company would be liable for using GPL'd code, while it was in an anti-GPL stance (i.e. public statements by its execuatives.)
i stand corrected. Maybe instead of going through all that effort, i could just send Darl and the following email content and be happy with that:
DD
A A
B B
C C
ABCDEFG ABCDEFGHI
B D F A
C D G B
DD C
EEE D
FFF
well, to each his own i guess. Now i have an incentive to get off my ass and create a project that is succesful enough to garner community support, even with the slightly non-free/non-SCO modification to the license.
There would be nothing stopping me from creating such a license, nor non-SCO folks from using the product. I just wouldn't be "in" with the purists i guess.
Actually, the source would still be "open", and SCO could look at the code, just not touch it, or use it. And, it would still be FREE, just not to SCO, there would be no available way for SCO to use the projects code, even though they could drool over it.
:-)
I might consider changing the modified license so that any company that Darl McBride was affiliated with, would not be able to use the projects code.
If i were leading an open-source project under any open-souce license....personally, I would modify the license to specifically prohibit SCO, and any companies that SCO has ownership in, and any companies that have ownership in SCO from ever using the project's source code, binaries, trademarks, etc, in any way what so ever.
I might also prohibit any company, whose execuatives talk any smack against the GPL.
What is the saying....."love it" or "LEAVE IT!"
Are we missing something here?
Wouldn't it be pretty simple to tax at point of sale for wifi devices? and/or tax on imports of wifi devices?
I guess for annually recurring taxes, a government might require some sort of registration, in order to purchase wifi devices, and then basically license there use???
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Hasn't ANT been able to call external scripts for a while now? ANT files are XML? Is ANT in trouble or is this an example of prior art?
I'm using this naming convention right now for my family website. And I would have used it as soon as i got my family domain name in 1999, had i had access to change my DNS records.
I mean if you have a family website and you want to give each family member their own personal area, wouldn't http://jane.doe.com and http://john.doe.com, etc be an obvious way to do it? Of course with emails being john@doe.com and jane@doe.com???
This patent doesn't need prior art to be overturned.....a reasonable person would easily come up with this on their own as i have.