Re:OpenID is great in theory
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The Case for OpenID
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There is no way to prevent people from making 100 accounts, which is still the problem
Actually, that's something I see as a feature. Some people have facets of their lives that they don't want tied to and searchable by their "pubilc" OpenID. Having multiple OpenIDs allows one to keep their private and work lives separate, for example.
Now, one person having 100 accounts that they use to troll message boards...that's a problem best solved with a reputation system, and OpenID's creators make it clear on their site that this is not a trust or reputation system. It's also not about having a centralized profile (FOAF addresses this). OpenID is just about having a consistent ID between sites.
Oh yeah! I picked up one of those when my laptop's power brick died and I carry it in a little pouch with all the tips. It sure beats carrying a bunch of chargers around!
That, and the people who are supposed to be repairing them generally aren't worth the time or money. I called in a Best Buy tech to look at my TV because it would turn on but sometimes it wouldn't show a picture. He came over, fired up the TV, got a pic, opened up the back, swished the dust around a little, told me it was dust build-up, and charged me $50 because it was out of warranty. After it happened again, I googled around and found out this was a common problem for this particular RCA chassis...an EEPROM wasn't soldered right at the factory. I've had the thing for seven years now, and have just learned to live with it.
I'm thinking it's because Java jobs come with a boatload of acronyms & libraries that employers expect someone to match *perfectly*, whereas PHP has one: PHP. You don't see many PHP jobs out there looking for PEAR, CURL, or any of that. But woe be unto the Java developer who doesn't know Websphere!
It depends on how you're defining "superstar" programmers. Are you looking for someone with a bunch of buzzwords & acronyms on their resume? I see Spring, Hibernate, and JMS in your job description, yet I've never worked with an application architect who was willing to use the first two, and one only used JMS because we didn't have time to write our own messaging system from scratch. I've worked with teams FULL of superstar talent who just don't have exposure to every technology out there. If you're not shopping for buzzwords, what techniques are you using to separate the "Highly detail oriented and organized" folks and the "Motivated self-learner[s]" from the dregs?
Those were the big selling points in the day. Owning computers was supposed to make us all super geniuses. Parents had to buy their kids a computer if they didn't want them to become bums living behind the supermarket and begging people for change.
After however many thousand years, I think it's reasonable to give up on human nature changing very much any time soon. Taxes are what we have because, regrettably, some people are assholes who don't properly understand their moral responsibilities. The freedom to behave like an asshole is not anyone's right and is not a freedom I care to protect.
Stop trying to shove your morality down my throat. How can you act so high & mighty when you're taking from me to give to someone else at the point of a gun? I'm not a slave here to support the causes the party in power halfway across the country thinks are important. I have my own causes that I support, which are fighting every day for the government's attention because people like you think that's the way it's supposed to be. Yet Bush wants to give my money instead to religious institutions and pay for things likerabstinence programs, which I oppose. How is that moral?
The Wikipedia article explains how they make their money. IT vendors pay for membership in the Gartner Group, which gives them the ability to meet with Gartner's consultants and get reports written up for them on trends within the IT sector. The vendors then give these reports to their sales staff, who use them to create ads along these lines:
"According to a 2006 survey by the Gartner Group, most Fortune 500 IT managers plan to invest in a n-tiered Web 2.0 SAN in the next fiscal year. You *do* want to be like the cool kids, don't you? WidgetCo has been delivering enterprise-class Web 2.0 SANS for 200 years and ranked the highest in n-tier customer satisfaction (source: the Gartner Group). Call your WidgetCo sales rep today to find out how we can integrate our synergistic solutions into your enterprise today!"
There are too many companies and managers that don't really know how to interview.
This is the first sentance in your comment, and it's a great summary. The rest is just frosting on the cake. Seriously, this should be boldfaced, underlined, and done up in flashing neon orange.
Most interviewers don't really know how to interview. Most managers don't really know how to manage. Most software architects don't really know how to architect software. And, to be fair, most programmers don't really know how to program. A lot of people out there are just winging it. They're people, after all. They pick up little tidbits of knowledge and technique here and there, improving their approach & skills, but they're really just doing the best they can.
Coding tests are a quick & easy way to do an interview and make the interviewer look like they're asking the tough technical questions. Every interview I've been on these days has been like a game show, with me having to answer all sorts of trivia questions dealing with situations that never seem to come up in the real world (like the linked list example). But, that's what the person giving the interview wants me to answer, isn't it? If I want the job, I'd better be good at answering trivia.
There's no class on interviewing in most college computer science curriculums. And even if there were, I doubt most people would take it. That's a shame, because building a good team is valuable to a project, especially when deadlines are tight and resources are thin.
You had something to hide Should have hidden it, shouldnt you Now youre not satisfied With what youre being put through
Its just time to pay the price For not listening to advice And deciding in your youth On the policy of truth
Re:Not exactly on topic but close
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Computer Voodoo?
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It may be something specific to that outlet. My UPS wont work on the outlet under my wife's desk but is fine under mine. It's been a while, but I think the hot & neutral wires are reversed. It's more or less ok for most things that plug into the wall, but some devices are picky or, in the case of my UPS, designed specifically not to work in such situations.
Yes. The wireless driver for the Dell E1505 is not supported by the version of ndiswrapper that ships with Dapper. I had to remove it from my system and had to download, compile & install ndiswrapper manually. Of course that meant Ubuntu wasn't maintaining the ndiswrapper module for me, so I had to make sure I downloaded headers every time the kernal was updated and recompile ndiswrapper before I could connect to the internet. If I forgot to download the headers when the new kernal update came along, I had to reboot to a kernel with a working ndiswrapper module, do the download, reboot, and *then* compile/install.
See here and here for other people who had this same problem.
"But please also understand my frustration at all the work it takes to keep a Linux system running as a daily personal desktop."
Now who is trolling?
I've missed important IMs because some other application had exclusive control of the sound card and I didn't see a new tab appear in the IM window. That led to a couple hours of googling around to find a fix, only to have none of the recommended configuration changes work. In Windows, I can have a whole cacophany of sounds going at once without touching a single ALSA config file or anything like that.
I also wasted hours trying to get the previous Skype release working, I think because they used OSS. I just couldn't get sound working at all, even with all the configuration changes and additional scripts people recommended. Finally, after months (more than a year I think) of people complaining, they finally released an ALSA version that worked. Yes, this was a bad move on their part, but it doesn't change the fact that I wasn't able to join in discussions with my friends and co-workers because of my operating system.
Back when I had an Nvidia video card, I needed to run a program every time my kernal was upgraded, or else X wouldn't even start. The story is more or less the same with ATI's drivers.
How is that trolling? There's just too much work involved in getting my computer to a place where it can be used productively under Linux.
So you being lazy makes Linux not ready for the desktop!
I love how my being busy with a family, house, career, friends, and a side business makes me somehow "lazy". You sound like a teenager or college student who has all the time in the world. Sorry, bud, there's more important things in life to me than fighting with my operating system.
Wow, I really can't tell if you're a troll or if you're just blinded by your zealotry. Maybe it's a little of each...
Once again, for everyone that missed it the first time: "I don't see anyone laying the blame at the feet of the Linux developers". Say it out loud. Repeat it a few times. Get it tattooed on the inside of your thigh...whatever. I'm sick of this "it's not Linux's fault" line. Nobody said it was, but it's still a relevant fact in the discussion.
Linux device driver writers have been dealt a crappy hand -- I don't think anyone will argue with that. But it's one that they took on willingly. They work on the drivers to "scratch their own itch", because they already have a particular piece of hardware that they wanted to see Linux support. If driver writers had just gone with what's on some compatibility chart on a web site out there, probably half the hardware & architectures out there wouldn't have the kind of Linux support they do now because the coders out there wouldn't have needed drivers.
I can understand the frustration when I mention things like the Broadcom wireless NIC in my laptop. Broadcom has been less than forthcoming with information about any of their chips, even their wired NICs from what I hear. But please also understand my frustration at all the work it takes to keep a Linux system running as a daily personal desktop. I just don't have the free time anymore to try & get things to work, or to hunt down a particular model of a peripheral with a specific chipset that I know will work with my system. I love the open source spirit, but it's just no practical for me to use Linux anymore on my daily personal system. It's not a matter of me not "knowing enough" or "knowing better", you self-important half-wit. It's a matter of having other priorities.
I don't own the player in question, but I am the owner of a now-defunct Zen Touch, and none of the Zen devices are "just a damn standard USB drive". The Zen Vision (and the Touch with the latest firmware) is an MTP device, and must be accessed with a program that uses libmtp, like gnomad2. gnomad2 crashed constantly on me, but I'm willing to blame Creative for making a crappy player that probably forgot what it was doing half-way through making the connection.
Ummm, I don't see anyone laying the blame at the feet of the Linux developers, but it does make Linux a little impractical as a personal desktop when hardware support is iffy or incomplete.
When I wanted to upload videos to my new iPod, the answer was to install the CVS version of GTKPod. When people complain that installing software is too difficult on Linux, we're told it's as simple as pulling up Synaptic.
I don't have any mod points to give you, so let me just say "a-friggin-men".
I've built and maintained my computers for years. Now I want them to just work with as little work as possible on my part. I want to spend my time on my own projects. I want to spend time with my family. I want to go for a walk.
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Actually, that's something I see as a feature. Some people have facets of their lives that they don't want tied to and searchable by their "pubilc" OpenID. Having multiple OpenIDs allows one to keep their private and work lives separate, for example.
Now, one person having 100 accounts that they use to troll message boards...that's a problem best solved with a reputation system, and OpenID's creators make it clear on their site that this is not a trust or reputation system. It's also not about having a centralized profile (FOAF addresses this). OpenID is just about having a consistent ID between sites.
Oh yeah! I picked up one of those when my laptop's power brick died and I carry it in a little pouch with all the tips. It sure beats carrying a bunch of chargers around!
That, and the people who are supposed to be repairing them generally aren't worth the time or money. I called in a Best Buy tech to look at my TV because it would turn on but sometimes it wouldn't show a picture. He came over, fired up the TV, got a pic, opened up the back, swished the dust around a little, told me it was dust build-up, and charged me $50 because it was out of warranty. After it happened again, I googled around and found out this was a common problem for this particular RCA chassis...an EEPROM wasn't soldered right at the factory. I've had the thing for seven years now, and have just learned to live with it.
Actually, that was my first reaction to Mosaic 1.x. "Who cares about this? It's just Gopher with graphics." Oh, how naive I was...
Unless, of course, your commenters really do want to talk about Viagra or Cialis... :)
Maybe. But that problem is soooo 2003.
I'm thinking it's because Java jobs come with a boatload of acronyms & libraries that employers expect someone to match *perfectly*, whereas PHP has one: PHP. You don't see many PHP jobs out there looking for PEAR, CURL, or any of that. But woe be unto the Java developer who doesn't know Websphere!
It depends on how you're defining "superstar" programmers. Are you looking for someone with a bunch of buzzwords & acronyms on their resume? I see Spring, Hibernate, and JMS in your job description, yet I've never worked with an application architect who was willing to use the first two, and one only used JMS because we didn't have time to write our own messaging system from scratch. I've worked with teams FULL of superstar talent who just don't have exposure to every technology out there. If you're not shopping for buzzwords, what techniques are you using to separate the "Highly detail oriented and organized" folks and the "Motivated self-learner[s]" from the dregs?
Those were the big selling points in the day. Owning computers was supposed to make us all super geniuses. Parents had to buy their kids a computer if they didn't want them to become bums living behind the supermarket and begging people for change.
After however many thousand years, I think it's reasonable to give up on human nature changing very much any time soon. Taxes are what we have because, regrettably, some people are assholes who don't properly understand their moral responsibilities. The freedom to behave like an asshole is not anyone's right and is not a freedom I care to protect. Stop trying to shove your morality down my throat. How can you act so high & mighty when you're taking from me to give to someone else at the point of a gun? I'm not a slave here to support the causes the party in power halfway across the country thinks are important. I have my own causes that I support, which are fighting every day for the government's attention because people like you think that's the way it's supposed to be. Yet Bush wants to give my money instead to religious institutions and pay for things likerabstinence programs, which I oppose. How is that moral?
That's a good way to put it. Advertising under the guise of research & consulting.
The Wikipedia article explains how they make their money. IT vendors pay for membership in the Gartner Group, which gives them the ability to meet with Gartner's consultants and get reports written up for them on trends within the IT sector. The vendors then give these reports to their sales staff, who use them to create ads along these lines:
"According to a 2006 survey by the Gartner Group, most Fortune 500 IT managers plan to invest in a n-tiered Web 2.0 SAN in the next fiscal year. You *do* want to be like the cool kids, don't you? WidgetCo has been delivering enterprise-class Web 2.0 SANS for 200 years and ranked the highest in n-tier customer satisfaction (source: the Gartner Group). Call your WidgetCo sales rep today to find out how we can integrate our synergistic solutions into your enterprise today!"
Here's a link to the comment you're referring to: http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=194366&c id=15930901
They've tried it, but the frequencies they were going to use brought protests from HAM and CB radio operators.
http://www.arrl.org/news/bandthreat/
Here, if you drive 20 minutes, you're two blocks from where you started.
And, in rural areas, households can be miles away from each other.
This is the first sentance in your comment, and it's a great summary. The rest is just frosting on the cake. Seriously, this should be boldfaced, underlined, and done up in flashing neon orange.
Most interviewers don't really know how to interview. Most managers don't really know how to manage. Most software architects don't really know how to architect software. And, to be fair, most programmers don't really know how to program. A lot of people out there are just winging it. They're people, after all. They pick up little tidbits of knowledge and technique here and there, improving their approach & skills, but they're really just doing the best they can.
Coding tests are a quick & easy way to do an interview and make the interviewer look like they're asking the tough technical questions. Every interview I've been on these days has been like a game show, with me having to answer all sorts of trivia questions dealing with situations that never seem to come up in the real world (like the linked list example). But, that's what the person giving the interview wants me to answer, isn't it? If I want the job, I'd better be good at answering trivia.
There's no class on interviewing in most college computer science curriculums. And even if there were, I doubt most people would take it. That's a shame, because building a good team is valuable to a project, especially when deadlines are tight and resources are thin.
You had something to hide
Should have hidden it, shouldnt you
Now youre not satisfied
With what youre being put through
Its just time to pay the price
For not listening to advice
And deciding in your youth
On the policy of truth
It may be something specific to that outlet. My UPS wont work on the outlet under my wife's desk but is fine under mine. It's been a while, but I think the hot & neutral wires are reversed. It's more or less ok for most things that plug into the wall, but some devices are picky or, in the case of my UPS, designed specifically not to work in such situations.
Yes. The wireless driver for the Dell E1505 is not supported by the version of ndiswrapper that ships with Dapper. I had to remove it from my system and had to download, compile & install ndiswrapper manually. Of course that meant Ubuntu wasn't maintaining the ndiswrapper module for me, so I had to make sure I downloaded headers every time the kernal was updated and recompile ndiswrapper before I could connect to the internet. If I forgot to download the headers when the new kernal update came along, I had to reboot to a kernel with a working ndiswrapper module, do the download, reboot, and *then* compile/install.
See here and here for other people who had this same problem.
I've missed important IMs because some other application had exclusive control of the sound card and I didn't see a new tab appear in the IM window. That led to a couple hours of googling around to find a fix, only to have none of the recommended configuration changes work. In Windows, I can have a whole cacophany of sounds going at once without touching a single ALSA config file or anything like that.
I also wasted hours trying to get the previous Skype release working, I think because they used OSS. I just couldn't get sound working at all, even with all the configuration changes and additional scripts people recommended. Finally, after months (more than a year I think) of people complaining, they finally released an ALSA version that worked. Yes, this was a bad move on their part, but it doesn't change the fact that I wasn't able to join in discussions with my friends and co-workers because of my operating system.
Back when I had an Nvidia video card, I needed to run a program every time my kernal was upgraded, or else X wouldn't even start. The story is more or less the same with ATI's drivers.
How is that trolling? There's just too much work involved in getting my computer to a place where it can be used productively under Linux.
I love how my being busy with a family, house, career, friends, and a side business makes me somehow "lazy". You sound like a teenager or college student who has all the time in the world. Sorry, bud, there's more important things in life to me than fighting with my operating system.
Wow, I really can't tell if you're a troll or if you're just blinded by your zealotry. Maybe it's a little of each...
Once again, for everyone that missed it the first time: "I don't see anyone laying the blame at the feet of the Linux developers". Say it out loud. Repeat it a few times. Get it tattooed on the inside of your thigh...whatever. I'm sick of this "it's not Linux's fault" line. Nobody said it was, but it's still a relevant fact in the discussion.
Linux device driver writers have been dealt a crappy hand -- I don't think anyone will argue with that. But it's one that they took on willingly. They work on the drivers to "scratch their own itch", because they already have a particular piece of hardware that they wanted to see Linux support. If driver writers had just gone with what's on some compatibility chart on a web site out there, probably half the hardware & architectures out there wouldn't have the kind of Linux support they do now because the coders out there wouldn't have needed drivers.
I can understand the frustration when I mention things like the Broadcom wireless NIC in my laptop. Broadcom has been less than forthcoming with information about any of their chips, even their wired NICs from what I hear. But please also understand my frustration at all the work it takes to keep a Linux system running as a daily personal desktop. I just don't have the free time anymore to try & get things to work, or to hunt down a particular model of a peripheral with a specific chipset that I know will work with my system. I love the open source spirit, but it's just no practical for me to use Linux anymore on my daily personal system. It's not a matter of me not "knowing enough" or "knowing better", you self-important half-wit. It's a matter of having other priorities.
I don't own the player in question, but I am the owner of a now-defunct Zen Touch, and none of the Zen devices are "just a damn standard USB drive". The Zen Vision (and the Touch with the latest firmware) is an MTP device, and must be accessed with a program that uses libmtp, like gnomad2. gnomad2 crashed constantly on me, but I'm willing to blame Creative for making a crappy player that probably forgot what it was doing half-way through making the connection.
Ummm, I don't see anyone laying the blame at the feet of the Linux developers, but it does make Linux a little impractical as a personal desktop when hardware support is iffy or incomplete.
When I wanted to upload videos to my new iPod, the answer was to install the CVS version of GTKPod. When people complain that installing software is too difficult on Linux, we're told it's as simple as pulling up Synaptic.
I don't have any mod points to give you, so let me just say "a-friggin-men". I've built and maintained my computers for years. Now I want them to just work with as little work as possible on my part. I want to spend my time on my own projects. I want to spend time with my family. I want to go for a walk.