Man - if I had *any* pull within RH, I'd be screaming that we need to release some sort of a cross-grade app to pull in the CentOS users NOW. Give them a few months of free support for their trouble.
Texas is a right-to-work state. As long as you did not sign a non-compete or there was no restrictive clause in your employment agreement, you should be ok. Sounds likt the guys are just pissed.
While OSSEC HIDS looks like the beginnings of a good solution (aside from the name - sheesh - sounds like a sneeze) I'd like to see integration of projects like DShield.org and maybe some community-maintained updates for rootkit definitions and such. APF/BFD does this - why not OSSEC HIDS?
Gesundheit.
Well turn that around a bit. I HAVE been in the graphics professional industry for a long time and I have to say - the largest amount of piracy I have ever witnessed has always taken place within ad agencies and boutique design shops. When I've found this happening, I've always raised hell about it.
In one small shop I had just joined a few years ago, I demanded that we get legal and it cost nearly $45k to do so - with just 12 people. That's not an insignificant amount of potato chips to Adobe, Quark, Macromedia and the like, if you ask me. With a thousand or so design shops in this town, I could easily see that number skyrocket.
And I tell you, that is VERY typical for the design industry - hypocritical to boot. Designers and photographers hapily bend customers over the table over rights and usage fees for the work they produce. And yet a very LARGE portion of them use pirated software. And when confronted, they give you snotty attitude and excuse after excuse to why they shouldn't have to pay for it. THAT is BS.
These days I'm on my own - I use both open source (where I can) and commercial software and pay for it. I KNOW what it takes to produce good software and choose to support the developers - both small and large- that work hard to do it. Not because of the BSA. Because I know it's the RIGHT thing to do.
And besides, I've learned to never trust a carpenter that doesn't own her own hammer.
I've been on both sides of this issue, as a corporate puke and a business owner. As a corporate puke, I always wanted to do the best I could and to constantly learn about new technology. I bought and read every tech book that was relevant for my work. I paid for training myself when I could and asked for time off to participate in it. It was only after I showed actual initiative did my employer pay for the books and classes. I didn't immediately look for a hand out - my education is my own personal betterment afterall. They offered, I didn't ask. Granted, that's probably not the norm. But that's how I was raised - to earn things for myself.
But now as a business owner, I expect that sort of initiative from my employees. I once had a contract worker charge me for taking the time to learn over a weekend an application we used day to day. He bought one of those 'Learn Brain Surgery in 24 Hrs' books - charged me for the book and the supposed 24 hrs he spent going thru it cover to cover. I was offended by that. Not that I was against his learning the app - but immediately out of the gate, how he expected me to PAY for that time. Time, I might add, that was unverified and unrequested. Had he taken initiative and demonstrated that he was trying on his own, I would have gladly offered to pay for further professional training. Instead, I let him go after barely a week in the office. Harsh? Maybe. But then again, you gotta be this high to ride this ride, baby. Growth starts with yourself.
In a related story, Microsoft today announced it has installed a 150 meter tall version of Clippy, which can now be seen hovering over south-east Nigeria. No word yet if it is actually assisting with anti-spam efforts or continuing to ask "Can I help you make an outline?"
I just have to say, as a formally trained photographer, anyone who thinks color prints will last 100 years are dead wrong. The caustic nature of the chemistry used in traditional color printing, especially your typical drugstore-type one-hour photos, pretty much guarantees the utter destruction of the prints within a few years.
Hand-printed black and white paper can be much more archival - the medium lends itself to it. BUT it is still highly dependent on the process, care and storage of the prints. You must store them in acid-free environments, out of direct sunlight, etc etc.
I have a degree in photography and emphasized on archival techniques and I STILL have issues with color photographs that have degraded in 10 short years. Take that fwiw.
Will it run YellowDog Linux? I'd believe it'd be a safe bet, considering IBM is sponsoring some power5 and G5 development contests on YellowDog's website. IBM and TerraSoft have had a fairly tight history as I recall.
But then again, what would be the point, as the system ships with Redhat or SUSE. YellowDog is based on Redhat. I'd pick Redhat given the choice, the support is better.
I spoke to 'Mrs. Magnatune' at sxsw last weekend. Really great guys/gals trying to fight the good fight - supporting artists along the way. Sure, they don't do a lot of promotion but it's still *some* exposure to small bands - 50% beats nothing at all. I have a stack of their compilation CDs here - it's *all* good stuff.
According to their blog, they are negotiating to get their catalog on itms as well as emusic soon.
**wow - imagine what the budgets of a commercial software product could do. You get what you pay for...**
C'mon - like the nmap guys had ANYTHING to do with this.
I've tried the Aeron chair out and it seemed like a decent chair, are they not all they appear?
They are the shiznit, to use bubble-era terminology.
Non-ass-numbing comfort for all those long hours of coding. Notice the people that bitch about them are the ones who don't have them. ummm yeahhh... They say things like 'no chair is worth that much'. They have no clue. Hell, they're probably used to being ass-pounded anyways since their company won't sport the cash to make them comfortable and making them work overtime. Or worse, their managers get them and they don't.
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heheh - if this is still an issue in October, I can only imagine the angry horde in front of their booth. http://www.cpanel.net/2009/06/centos-is-exhibiting-at-cpanel-conference-2009.html
Man - if I had *any* pull within RH, I'd be screaming that we need to release some sort of a cross-grade app to pull in the CentOS users NOW. Give them a few months of free support for their trouble.
Texas is a right-to-work state. As long as you did not sign a non-compete or there was no restrictive clause in your employment agreement, you should be ok. Sounds likt the guys are just pissed.
[insert bad joke of rocket scientists not getting "dates" here]
While OSSEC HIDS looks like the beginnings of a good solution (aside from the name - sheesh - sounds like a sneeze) I'd like to see integration of projects like DShield.org and maybe some community-maintained updates for rootkit definitions and such. APF/BFD does this - why not OSSEC HIDS?
Gesundheit.
Well turn that around a bit. I HAVE been in the graphics professional industry for a long time and I have to say - the largest amount of piracy I have ever witnessed has always taken place within ad agencies and boutique design shops. When I've found this happening, I've always raised hell about it.
In one small shop I had just joined a few years ago, I demanded that we get legal and it cost nearly $45k to do so - with just 12 people. That's not an insignificant amount of potato chips to Adobe, Quark, Macromedia and the like, if you ask me. With a thousand or so design shops in this town, I could easily see that number skyrocket.
And I tell you, that is VERY typical for the design industry - hypocritical to boot. Designers and photographers hapily bend customers over the table over rights and usage fees for the work they produce. And yet a very LARGE portion of them use pirated software. And when confronted, they give you snotty attitude and excuse after excuse to why they shouldn't have to pay for it. THAT is BS.
These days I'm on my own - I use both open source (where I can) and commercial software and pay for it. I KNOW what it takes to produce good software and choose to support the developers - both small and large- that work hard to do it. Not because of the BSA. Because I know it's the RIGHT thing to do.
And besides, I've learned to never trust a carpenter that doesn't own her own hammer.
ahh hell, I'm still waiting on Bon Scott messaging. You know it'd be a helluvah lot cooler.
I've been on both sides of this issue, as a corporate puke and a business owner. As a corporate puke, I always wanted to do the best I could and to constantly learn about new technology. I bought and read every tech book that was relevant for my work. I paid for training myself when I could and asked for time off to participate in it. It was only after I showed actual initiative did my employer pay for the books and classes. I didn't immediately look for a hand out - my education is my own personal betterment afterall. They offered, I didn't ask. Granted, that's probably not the norm. But that's how I was raised - to earn things for myself.
But now as a business owner, I expect that sort of initiative from my employees. I once had a contract worker charge me for taking the time to learn over a weekend an application we used day to day. He bought one of those 'Learn Brain Surgery in 24 Hrs' books - charged me for the book and the supposed 24 hrs he spent going thru it cover to cover. I was offended by that. Not that I was against his learning the app - but immediately out of the gate, how he expected me to PAY for that time. Time, I might add, that was unverified and unrequested. Had he taken initiative and demonstrated that he was trying on his own, I would have gladly offered to pay for further professional training. Instead, I let him go after barely a week in the office. Harsh? Maybe. But then again, you gotta be this high to ride this ride, baby. Growth starts with yourself.
In a related story, Microsoft today announced it has installed a 150 meter tall version of Clippy, which can now be seen hovering over south-east Nigeria. No word yet if it is actually assisting with anti-spam efforts or continuing to ask "Can I help you make an outline?"
aim high, light fuse.
no i didn't, you insensitive clod!
what is this 'girlfriend' you speak of?
heheh - just look how many of you just openly admitted to having Word installed on your machines. Jesus! And you call yourselves slashdotters...
[it's a joke son, move along]
Hey now - It's wild, wonderful and really - where else can you date your cousin in peace? ;-)
[I'm originally from WV so I can say that.]
I just have to say, as a formally trained photographer, anyone who thinks color prints will last 100 years are dead wrong. The caustic nature of the chemistry used in traditional color printing, especially your typical drugstore-type one-hour photos, pretty much guarantees the utter destruction of the prints within a few years.
Hand-printed black and white paper can be much more archival - the medium lends itself to it. BUT it is still highly dependent on the process, care and storage of the prints. You must store them in acid-free environments, out of direct sunlight, etc etc.
I have a degree in photography and emphasized on archival techniques and I STILL have issues with color photographs that have degraded in 10 short years. Take that fwiw.
Will it run YellowDog Linux? I'd believe it'd be a safe bet, considering IBM is sponsoring some power5 and G5 development contests on YellowDog's website. IBM and TerraSoft have had a fairly tight history as I recall.
But then again, what would be the point, as the system ships with Redhat or SUSE. YellowDog is based on Redhat. I'd pick Redhat given the choice, the support is better.
ahhh... such nice boys, they are... I bet they'll grow up to be the best nerds ever. **gush**
what WOULDN'T I do with it. except maybe make my busted-ass dsl line faster.
meesah no like um terrrrorrristss. mustah saaave lil' bushy...
I spoke to 'Mrs. Magnatune' at sxsw last weekend. Really great guys/gals trying to fight the good fight - supporting artists along the way. Sure, they don't do a lot of promotion but it's still *some* exposure to small bands - 50% beats nothing at all. I have a stack of their compilation CDs here - it's *all* good stuff.
According to their blog, they are negotiating to get their catalog on itms as well as emusic soon.
It seems to me this "survey" could be used by spam marketers to sell their services to potential clients. Something's fishy about this one.
**wow - imagine what the budgets of a commercial software product could do. You get what you pay for...** C'mon - like the nmap guys had ANYTHING to do with this.
I've tried the Aeron chair out and it seemed like a decent chair, are they not all they appear?
They are the shiznit, to use bubble-era terminology.
Non-ass-numbing comfort for all those long hours of coding. Notice the people that bitch about them are the ones who don't have them. ummm yeahhh... They say things like 'no chair is worth that much'. They have no clue. Hell, they're probably used to being ass-pounded anyways since their company won't sport the cash to make them comfortable and making them work overtime. Or worse, their managers get them and they don't.
hmmm. New Mexico plates are ALREADY yellow. Damn, whatever shall they do?