One would need to find someone who is themselves driven yet does not drive others insane.
Debian is a big organisation and I wonder if it is beyond the ability of normal OSS "managers" to properly control. Professional organisations like Canonical can afford to invest in their staff, and a few lucky projects will get the services of experienced people for free.
Maybe Debian should modularise. Divide into smaller projects. NetBSD has the OS and pkgsrc as separate projects, not that thats a good example of a well resourced and run project.
I think it is only a problem if the trademark holder writes their mark without a ®. So maybe Linus has to always write things like Hey guys lets put out another version of the Linux ® kernel making sure that we get all the Linux ® kernel modules building before we announce on the Linux ® kernel mailing list. But he doesn't have to do the same for Microsoft.
I am sorry... I was being extremely sarcastic. I think DJB is a nutcase (I've worked with qmail).:)
So do I (and so have I) but if the queston is can we find someone as driven as Theo de Raadt to lead a project then DBJ is about the only person I could think of.
Its the kind of thing people promise themselves and their co-workers they are going to say after they leave. Its good for the people still there, and its good in the long term for any stock you own in your previous employer.
Yes, he is bad mouthing them, but its not like he is posting their private bug database on bittorrent. And Microsoft might be better for it.
Thanks for posting. I learnt CPR at high school, 20-30 years ago. As I and the people I associate with increase in age the probability that I will have to give someone first aid is increasing, so its good to get up to date information.
The point of the matter is, I am now older. I am 33 years old and I just don't have the same energy as I used to to deal with stupid issues that they should not be there, or with removal or non-development of conveniences for no good reason.
...Eugenia Loli-Quer is claiming that 33 is tool old to be doing some classes of work. Now I have to say that I didn't use unix at all until I was 33 (it was vms and rsx up to then) and I don't plan on slowing down.
I appreciate the low maintenance nature of ubuntu. But that just liberates time for me to get more hacking done.
Considering that these rovers were initally spec'ed for a 90 day mission, the fact that they are still going after 3 years is something worth celebrating.
Recently a search took me to a Sprit status report from about sol 60 which described the rover as "almost middle aged"
My wife and I both use laptops which dual boot WindowsXP and Ubuntu. She has to run a windows application for her work and it doesn't work under wine so I got the free vmware player but got stuck because you need the commercial version to create a virtual disk.
At work we run Suse+vmware+windowsXP so I asked around in the IT department at work and got some good advice about working with vmware but the windows guys in IT acted like I was an abusive husband for giving my S.O. Linux to use and offered me vmware xp images from their network to take home.
I said thanks but I prefer to run my own copies of the OS, mainly because I can reinstall it any time I want. But the attitude of these guys was just take it, we don't care which surprised me a lot.
on the other hand they still need to be number one of most infringed software, so there needs to be a backdoor
Yes you are right. Its always been that way. But I don't understand why they don't come up with a legitimate trial version. Download it for free. Run it for a week then activate it by credit card.
Dear Capt'n Hector its 06:37PM here and while I agree that the picture is pretty creepy I suggest you give your brain a rest once in a while, it will do you good. Sweet dreams.
I used Redhat back in the day, just before I became a die hard Debian user. I'm wondering what exactly should drive me to want to switch to Redhat at this point? They seem very fractured to me and the whole "Enterprise" setup with a "free version where we develop everything" or whatever doesn't strike me as very appealing.
I run a small hosting business and I use netbsd on all my servers. I like the nice stable release cycle, and the availability of applications via pkgsrc. But on the weekend I went to build a new system and noticed that the link to pkgsrc was dead.
I sent a few emails to the administrators and it got fixed by wednesday but I was unable to build that new system for three days.
If you are relying on people who work in their spare time you then there will always be cases like this. This article made me think that I might be better off buying a copy of RHEL every time it comes out.
Most planets have a bit of inclination, so you're going to be turning into an angle to the ecliptic-- not very useful if you want to aim at another planet.
Niven and Pournelle made the point in The Mote in Gods Eye that if you build a laser boosted solar sail to travel to another star then you could use the galactic magnetic field to do a 180 degree turn, approach the target star from the opposite direction, and then use your laser boost to slow down.
In the story that wasn't used because the people running the laser were expected to be dead soon, but I think the point about this being good for very long, slow flights is relevant. Its not really something you would use in the solar system.
OTH if you were deep in the magnetic field of Jupiter it might be a good way to generate thrust. It might work at saturn as well. Magnetic fields have been used to stabilise satelites in low Earth orbit.
not without Earthing (or Marsing or Mercurying) it first!
Harry Harrison has suggested that humans in the distant future will wonder why we named our home world "Dirt". But anyway I can't imagine that in a future mars colony the three wire AC will come as Active (brown), Neutral (blue) and Mars (striped green/yellow). I think we will all just quietly ignore the inconsistency and call it Earth.
one of my early CS professors claimed that the window of oportunity for a job as a programmer or s/w engineer was going to close soon as automatic code generators took over the task of raw code banging.
I read once that assemblers and compilers were both described as enabling the "self programming computer" when they came out.
Of course such things just increase productivity and open up new applications.
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I am inclined to blame him for Basic as well, because it started out as a kind of simplified Fortran.
Debian is a big organisation and I wonder if it is beyond the ability of normal OSS "managers" to properly control. Professional organisations like Canonical can afford to invest in their staff, and a few lucky projects will get the services of experienced people for free.
Maybe Debian should modularise. Divide into smaller projects. NetBSD has the OS and pkgsrc as separate projects, not that thats a good example of a well resourced and run project.
I think it is only a problem if the trademark holder writes their mark without a ®. So maybe Linus has to always write things like Hey guys lets put out another version of the Linux ® kernel making sure that we get all the Linux ® kernel modules building before we announce on the Linux ® kernel mailing list. But he doesn't have to do the same for Microsoft.
So do I (and so have I) but if the queston is can we find someone as driven as Theo de Raadt to lead a project then DBJ is about the only person I could think of.
Maybe he has a new employer.
Its the kind of thing people promise themselves and their co-workers they are going to say after they leave. Its good for the people still there, and its good in the long term for any stock you own in your previous employer.
Yes, he is bad mouthing them, but its not like he is posting their private bug database on bittorrent. And Microsoft might be better for it.
Thanks for posting. I learnt CPR at high school, 20-30 years ago. As I and the people I associate with increase in age the probability that I will have to give someone first aid is increasing, so its good to get up to date information.
What you say makes sense.
Its pretty slow. Looks like we have taken it down for her. The notice worked.
In TFA...
...Eugenia Loli-Quer is claiming that 33 is tool old to be doing some classes of work. Now I have to say that I didn't use unix at all until I was 33 (it was vms and rsx up to then) and I don't plan on slowing down.
I appreciate the low maintenance nature of ubuntu. But that just liberates time for me to get more hacking done.
Recently a search took me to a Sprit status report from about sol 60 which described the rover as "almost middle aged"
Yes, that might be the answer.
My wife and I both use laptops which dual boot WindowsXP and Ubuntu. She has to run a windows application for her work and it doesn't work under wine so I got the free vmware player but got stuck because you need the commercial version to create a virtual disk.
At work we run Suse+vmware+windowsXP so I asked around in the IT department at work and got some good advice about working with vmware but the windows guys in IT acted like I was an abusive husband for giving my S.O. Linux to use and offered me vmware xp images from their network to take home.
I said thanks but I prefer to run my own copies of the OS, mainly because I can reinstall it any time I want. But the attitude of these guys was just take it, we don't care which surprised me a lot.
Yes you are right. Its always been that way. But I don't understand why they don't come up with a legitimate trial version. Download it for free. Run it for a week then activate it by credit card.
With a long timebase it should be far better than that. Easily centimetres, possibly millimetres of precision.
Thats a good question. With geothermal ennergy from Yellowstone the US could tell the Saudis to sell thir oil elsewhere.
You are all welcome at my place, 38 S 144 E
Let me guess, on their potential for product placement and merchandising?
Dear Capt'n Hector its 06:37PM here and while I agree that the picture is pretty creepy I suggest you give your brain a rest once in a while, it will do you good. Sweet dreams.
I run a small hosting business and I use netbsd on all my servers. I like the nice stable release cycle, and the availability of applications via pkgsrc. But on the weekend I went to build a new system and noticed that the link to pkgsrc was dead.
I sent a few emails to the administrators and it got fixed by wednesday but I was unable to build that new system for three days.
If you are relying on people who work in their spare time you then there will always be cases like this. This article made me think that I might be better off buying a copy of RHEL every time it comes out.
Niven and Pournelle made the point in The Mote in Gods Eye that if you build a laser boosted solar sail to travel to another star then you could use the galactic magnetic field to do a 180 degree turn, approach the target star from the opposite direction, and then use your laser boost to slow down.
In the story that wasn't used because the people running the laser were expected to be dead soon, but I think the point about this being good for very long, slow flights is relevant. Its not really something you would use in the solar system.
OTH if you were deep in the magnetic field of Jupiter it might be a good way to generate thrust. It might work at saturn as well. Magnetic fields have been used to stabilise satelites in low Earth orbit.
Harry Harrison has suggested that humans in the distant future will wonder why we named our home world "Dirt". But anyway I can't imagine that in a future mars colony the three wire AC will come as Active (brown), Neutral (blue) and Mars (striped green/yellow). I think we will all just quietly ignore the inconsistency and call it Earth.
...and its set about now I think. Well... we could have had the moon base by now, if we had wanted to.
Oh damn. That was a long time ago.
My advice: follow your nose. Work on what you enjoy. Big companies are okay but don't get stuck working on a production line.
Mass production is how small companies become big.
I read once that assemblers and compilers were both described as enabling the "self programming computer" when they came out.
Of course such things just increase productivity and open up new applications.