0) Do some research on your apps before installing 1) Stick to open source apps whenever possible 2) don't just click through like whack-a-mole when installing... read the perms!
Seriously. Do you really think you are going to need skills writing kernel drivers or mucking about with filesystem data structures? No. Not unless you plan on working for, and retiring from, Google or IBM.
What your manager is trying to tell you is that the job you hoped to have when you get out of college was actually outsource/offshored 12 years ago and unless you plan on living in India, China or Korea you have no need for technical know how. We spend money to buy software to do that, and then purchase a maintenance agreement with said software company in order to get email support. It's not great, but we save a lot of money that the CEOs use to pay for their condos in Tahiti and Bermuda.
You'd best be spending your time learning how to create a dialog box in.NET.
Maybe with unemployment being so high, more people are goofing off gaming. Otherwise, I just don't see how the average, employed, 37 year old has more time to play than the 7-18 year old. Unless they count playing Angry Birds while on the shi#ter as "gaming".
I remember when there were like 5 kids in the whole school who played computer games and everyone thought they were, well, geeky. Arguments happened all the time over designing electrical circuits, if Microsoft Macro Assembler was better than Turbo Assemlber, if Stacker was worth the price, or whether it made sense to upgrade to a 14400 modem (the phone company would not guarantee speeds over 9600 baud).
I think we are just inundated with people ("geeks") who have gleaned a lot of 1/4" deep knowledge from google. They know enough to argue about what they read, but haven't enough understanding to hypothesize.
OpenBSD has been at it a lot longer. Even as a Linux Zealot, I would choose OpenBSD for security. IOS is a closed Black-Box that nobody but Stevie knows what's inside. Historically we tend to find *cough*siemens*cough* that closed source, proprietary *cough*secureid*cough* offerings do not necessarily equate to a trustworthy or "secure" system. What seems to happen is closed source options provide a layer of obscurity which allow the governing company *cough*dropbox*cough* to take inexcusable risks with customers assets because, basically, they don't need to show anybody. As long as they never get caught, they save a lot of money not having to implement a system to keep them honest.
Maybe there's a lower level protocol that can be used somehow. Even if it's only 1 way, can you broadcast across a router without needing to know the next hop? you could spoof a mac in the ARP request to send a message eg: 20:00:56:DE:AD
The situation with people yelling into their phones is already way too annoying when sitting in a restaurant, bus, or other public place without adding more vocal static to the background.
I propose working on a Cone of Silence add-on for cell phones, or maybe a neural headset transmitter-to-speech accesory.
Mozilla picked up the Netscape ball when M$ killed the company. If it weren't for that, it's likely M$ would have created a whole load of proprietary formats and locked the web up into it's own little version of Bill's World. Mozilla creates and alternative and without it you would be subject to the whims of whichever monopoly has control. Just like cable tv. Just like your phone bill. Just like Walmart.
The Aeron[0] chair is great, but pretty expensive. I have two of them and they were worth the $800 but the pellicle-mesh fabric is a bit slippery...from the factory anyway. I also like the Office Depot Quantum chair[1]. Beware the seat doesn't recline though, just the back of the chair does. For $300 bucks it's a nice mesh chair.
It's better to grow up knowing sad things happen and finding healthy tools to deal with that...not than anyone on/. needs improved life skills or anything..
Laptop keyboards are a bit more difficult to replace than a regular USB desktop keyboard. I bet there will be a lot of kids learning how to take it apart to fix the problem; and they won't be violating any EULA or DMCA BS.
FTFA: Some folks have fixed the issue by removing the keyboard and cleaning under the contacts where the sticky build-up is occurring. Use rubbing alcohol or an eraser. It's certainly worth a try although the keyboard does take some Disassembly to get to.
Does an install base of 14000 classify as 'mass migration'? I don't know if they did Novell though. I've run NLD9, and I didn't like it, but fortunately, linux is about my choice - not someone else's. I found a distro I did like - actually several.. so did Munich. So will others.
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0) Do some research on your apps before installing
1) Stick to open source apps whenever possible
2) don't just click through like whack-a-mole when installing... read the perms!
Take the same precautions on your Android phone.
I sure wouldn't want to faceplant into the cuisinart on the front of that thing.
Seriously. Do you really think you are going to need skills writing kernel drivers or mucking about with filesystem data structures? No. Not unless you plan on working for, and retiring from, Google or IBM.
What your manager is trying to tell you is that the job you hoped to have when you get out of college was actually outsource/offshored 12 years ago and unless you plan on living in India, China or Korea you have no need for technical know how. We spend money to buy software to do that, and then purchase a maintenance agreement with said software company in order to get email support. It's not great, but we save a lot of money that the CEOs use to pay for their condos in Tahiti and Bermuda.
You'd best be spending your time learning how to create a dialog box in .NET.
That's almost hysterical. If anything, windows 3.1 was revolutionary but that's only in the Microsoft context.
No kidding, when will this idiot disappear.
When Microsoft stops paying him.
+1 insightful
Maybe with unemployment being so high, more people are goofing off gaming. Otherwise, I just don't see how the average, employed, 37 year old has more time to play than the 7-18 year old. Unless they count playing Angry Birds while on the shi#ter as "gaming".
I remember when there were like 5 kids in the whole school who played computer games and everyone thought they were, well, geeky. Arguments happened all the time over designing electrical circuits, if Microsoft Macro Assembler was better than Turbo Assemlber, if Stacker was worth the price, or whether it made sense to upgrade to a 14400 modem (the phone company would not guarantee speeds over 9600 baud).
I think we are just inundated with people ("geeks") who have gleaned a lot of 1/4" deep knowledge from google. They know enough to argue about what they read, but haven't enough understanding to hypothesize.
Jailbreaking is a hardly an argument. If anything, it's an indicator of a larger security problem.
OpenBSD has been at it a lot longer. Even as a Linux Zealot, I would choose OpenBSD for security. IOS is a closed Black-Box that nobody but Stevie knows what's inside. Historically we tend to find *cough*siemens*cough* that closed source, proprietary *cough*secureid*cough* offerings do not necessarily equate to a trustworthy or "secure" system. What seems to happen is closed source options provide a layer of obscurity which allow the governing company *cough*dropbox*cough* to take inexcusable risks with customers assets because, basically, they don't need to show anybody. As long as they never get caught, they save a lot of money not having to implement a system to keep them honest.
+1 informative but I have no mod points :(
I can't wait to give away my freedom. How much longer?
Schools in North America at least--if not everywhere in the West
Dude. Canada. RTFA.
Besides, if TFA were about a US school, the kid would be from Texas and the video about Charles Darwin.
Maybe there's a lower level protocol that can be used somehow. Even if it's only 1 way, can you broadcast across a router without needing to know the next hop? you could spoof a mac in the ARP request to send a message eg: 20:00:56:DE:AD
The situation with people yelling into their phones is already way too annoying when sitting in a restaurant, bus, or other public place without adding more vocal static to the background.
I propose working on a Cone of Silence add-on for cell phones, or maybe a neural headset transmitter-to-speech accesory.
They can't pay anyone enough to actually talk like that on camera. That's part of the reason they Jar Jar was CGI.
Use FVWM :)
Agreed..
or Sawfish, or XFCE, or Fluxbox, or Enlightenment....
There are many more.
Ignorance assumes; google enlightens.
Too bad people need to learn the hard way. People are like that.
Mozilla picked up the Netscape ball when M$ killed the company. If it weren't for that, it's likely M$ would have created a whole load of proprietary formats and locked the web up into it's own little version of Bill's World. Mozilla creates and alternative and without it you would be subject to the whims of whichever monopoly has control. Just like cable tv. Just like your phone bill. Just like Walmart.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk.nyud.net/news/worldnews/article-1234430/Mystery-spiral-blue-light-display-hovers-Norway.html
http://i.dailymail.co.uk.nyud.net/i/pix/2009/12/09/article-1234430-07887B10000005DC-48_634x421.jpg
http://i.dailymail.co.uk.nyud.net/i/pix/2009/12/09/article-1234430-0787DEA4000005DC-908_634x348.jpg
The Aeron[0] chair is great, but pretty expensive. I have two of them and they were worth the $800 but the pellicle-mesh fabric is a bit slippery...from the factory anyway. I also like the Office Depot Quantum chair[1]. Beware the seat doesn't recline though, just the back of the chair does. For $300 bucks it's a nice mesh chair.
[0] - http://images.google.com/images?&q=herman+miller+aeron
[1] - http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/510830/Realspace-Quantum-Recycled-Mesh-Task-Chair/;jsessionid=blah
It's better to grow up knowing sad things happen and finding healthy tools to deal with that...not than anyone on /. needs improved life skills or anything..
Laptop keyboards are a bit more difficult to replace than a regular USB desktop keyboard. I bet there will be a lot of kids learning how to take it apart to fix the problem; and they won't be violating any EULA or DMCA BS.
FTFA:
Some folks have fixed the issue by removing the keyboard and cleaning under the contacts where the sticky build-up is occurring. Use rubbing alcohol or an eraser. It's certainly worth a try although the keyboard does take some Disassembly to get to.
We'll know now in realtime when someone launches a test missle into the ocean
Does an install base of 14000 classify as 'mass migration'? I don't know if they did Novell though. I've run NLD9, and I didn't like it, but fortunately, linux is about my choice - not someone else's. I found a distro I did like - actually several.. so did Munich. So will others.
> screen printing, becomes suspect and may even be taken
> away as an option because it is potentially used for pirating.
Everyone.. switch your keytops around on Print Screen and Scroll Lock. That should keep the MPAA busy for a while.