Tech work is business. Working at a company is business. It's amazing how many people forget this. Sure you may have great colleagues or have had great colleagues, but your at work earning a wage. Yes, you can enjoy doing your work, but your still working for an employer earning a wage.
Likewise, your relationship is predominantly a business relationship with your boss or ex boss, not friendship, it's important to remember the type of relationship you have with these people whether on good or bad terms, it's about $$.
So when your no longer working for your employer, you shoudl ask yourself what is the nature of your relationship with the ex-boss.
It would appear that you've been played. She was desperate for someone to resolve the issue and your name came to mind. Your quite in your rights to say no, I suspect she would try and scare you if you did say no, but this is purely second guessing.
I hope you were remunerated for this, if not take it further.
I do wonder if she was a good boss or not at the time from your posting.
The answer is very simple. Money. The asian business community's simply cannot afford the Western licensing costs charged by Microsoft so many don't pay. Now that there is increasing Governmental software licensing enforcement, it's pushing company's towards a legalised solution, and Open Source is a good investment.
Desktop applications, p2p etc, if these were developed first for Linux/UNIX platforms then I would probably make this my permanent desktop.
Habit, old habits die hard.
Games, I like a shoot em up every so often, configuring transgaming etc can be a pain, in fact Linux can be a pain because you don't stop configuring, that can also be it's finest and greatest feature, dual edged sword.
I'm opposed to the idea of cloning UNIX workstations. 5 years I said the same thing. It creates a new breed of system administrators who've never seen a UNIX prompt.
Should a UNIX install be rushed en masse? I'd be interested to see if anyone can justify this, I just don't feel overall comfortable with the concept of UNIX cloning.
People always get annoyed with this, however we would like.iso's of OpenBSD. I believe the philosophy is flawed in that.iso's are not made available so people have to purchase the cd's which helpds fund the project. However this limits the distribution of OpenBSD. If anyone could download an.iso, become familiar with OpenBSD, the userbase would be larger and therefore more people would purchase the official CD's.
I'd prefer to work for a company of hackers wearing what we like, out input to the company being valued, our thoughts heard and having a greater sense of wellbeing than earning lots of money wearing a suit, sitting in a cubicle, not having a voice, not being allowed to contribute my creative flow to the company mainstream.
Took me a long time to see this, money is not the end game, it's trying to retain as much hair as possible.
Is it me, or is Australia becoming a capitalist laden society?
People should be taking note on this point.
"The market has tightened significantly and whether people like it or not, you're going to have to work a lot harder in this environment than you have ever done in your life"
If banks can't, then nobody can since it's often the banks who have enough capital to be able to do this.
Personally i'd like to see the entire web move to support a closed and an open sourced browser platform, everything else comes second, that would do it for me.
Let's kick Microsoft out of America, not just off a temporary billboard. Their starting to destroy America's credibility, all it stands for is starting to become a joke.
Can slashdot post the Google cached page? Actually, how do you make Google cache a page? Would'nt this be a better approach to just posting the URL, post the Google cached URL too. So many times these webservers are not fine tuned enough to handle the/. effect.
Marginally more dangerous, I would strongly never giving into the world situation, it's always changing and there are always issues to take into account, but you should never hold back because of this, if it's safe. I personally would'nt stay for a long time in a third world country, your asking for trouble, in dangerous times or not.
A lot of Europeans view America as a more dangerous place than the third world, I kid you not. There is a big issue of reality versus perception with America.
This is quite interesting because you can go around the world as a teacher or doctor however you can go nowhere as a geek. I wonder if this will change in 5/10 years as we become more dependent upon technology.
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Tech work is business. Working at a company is business. It's amazing how many people forget this. Sure you may have great colleagues or have had great colleagues, but your at work earning a wage. Yes, you can enjoy doing your work, but your still working for an employer earning a wage.
Likewise, your relationship is predominantly a business relationship with your boss or ex boss, not friendship, it's important to remember the type of relationship you have with these people whether on good or bad terms, it's about $$.
So when your no longer working for your employer, you shoudl ask yourself what is the nature of your relationship with the ex-boss.
It would appear that you've been played. She was desperate for someone to resolve the issue and your name came to mind. Your quite in your rights to say no, I suspect she would try and scare you if you did say no, but this is purely second guessing.
I hope you were remunerated for this, if not take it further.
I do wonder if she was a good boss or not at the time from your posting.
The answer is very simple. Money. The asian business community's simply cannot afford the Western licensing costs charged by Microsoft so many don't pay. Now that there is increasing Governmental software licensing enforcement, it's pushing company's towards a legalised solution, and Open Source is a good investment.
How do I purchase shares in Redhat Japan, assuming their on, is it the Nikkei Index?
3 reasons.
Desktop applications, p2p etc, if these were developed first for Linux/UNIX platforms then I would probably make this my permanent desktop.
Habit, old habits die hard.
Games, I like a shoot em up every so often, configuring transgaming etc can be a pain, in fact Linux can be a pain because you don't stop configuring, that can also be it's finest and greatest feature, dual edged sword.
I get tired of copy and pasting spam emails into spamcop from the same ISP's. I use The Bat! quite a lot, any suggestions?
Beowulf clusters yes. Windows workstations yes.
Windows Servers hmmmm. UNIX servers no. UNIX workstations hmmm.
I'm opposed to the idea of cloning UNIX workstations. 5 years I said the same thing. It creates a new breed of system administrators who've
never seen a UNIX prompt.
Should a UNIX install be rushed en masse? I'd be interested to see if anyone can justify this, I just don't feel overall comfortable with the concept of UNIX cloning.
That's not even funny, I don't know many industry leaders buy into the certification bull.
I often wonder if it's kept in order to keep an element of elitism attached with OpenBSD. Afterall look what happened to Linux.
People always get annoyed with this, however we would like .iso's of OpenBSD. I believe the philosophy is flawed in that .iso's are not made available so people have to purchase the cd's which helpds fund the project. However this limits the distribution of OpenBSD. If anyone could download an .iso, become familiar with OpenBSD, the userbase would be larger and therefore more people would purchase the official CD's.
What do others think?
Public ditches ICANN, oh it's too late.
Where's the lart when you need it.
Out of the box yes, however don't forget that it must be security hardened after the install to get the full merits of OpenBSD's hardness.
There is a fantastic graphical installer for OpenBSD, it's just not in the default install, yet. See the GOBIE project.
http://www.gobie.net/
And your proud of being abused like this? Technical achievement is great, but being slave boy like this is awful.
I'd prefer to work for a company of hackers wearing what we like, out input to the company being valued, our thoughts heard and having a greater sense of wellbeing than earning lots of money wearing a suit, sitting in a cubicle, not having a voice, not being allowed to contribute my creative flow to the company mainstream.
Took me a long time to see this, money is not the end game, it's trying to retain as much hair as possible.
Is it me, or is Australia becoming a capitalist laden society?
People should be taking note on this point.
"The market has tightened significantly and whether people like it or not, you're going to have to work a lot harder in this environment than you have ever done in your life"
If banks can't, then nobody can since it's often the banks who have enough capital to be able to do this.
Personally i'd like to see the entire web move to support a closed and an open sourced browser platform, everything else comes second, that would do it for me.
Let's kick Microsoft out of America, not just off a temporary billboard. Their starting to destroy America's credibility, all it stands for is starting to become a joke.
Looks a good drive, any idea on the price?
ok i'll admit it, what is the deal with "anti-aliasing enabled", i'd like to experiment with this "feature". Easier to frag the enemy?
Can slashdot post the Google cached page? Actually, how do you make Google cache a page? Would'nt this be a better approach to just posting the URL, post the Google cached URL too. So many times these webservers are not fine tuned enough to handle the /. effect.
Marginally more dangerous, I would strongly never giving into the world situation, it's always changing and there are always issues to take into account, but you should never hold back because of this, if it's safe. I personally would'nt stay for a long time in a third world country, your asking for trouble, in dangerous times or not.
A lot of Europeans view America as a more dangerous place than the third world, I kid you not. There is a big issue of reality versus perception with America.
This is quite interesting because you can go around the world as a teacher or doctor however you can go nowhere as a geek. I wonder if this will change in 5/10 years as we become more dependent upon technology.
http://www.tefl.com/