There were many graphical designers etc., with no education, that earned good money. Since their knowledge was really small when it comes to computers, their worth on the job market is virtually zero. Their problem is, that they had status, money, and an interesting job. They won't accept to go as low as a job at McDonald's.
I use one of these guys, who litterally works for bandwidth!!! Just to stay in the business and have something to show, if a potential employer asks him about what he has done.
Microsoft.net will introduce identities with its passport service. Knowing the identity of the user, Microsoft can easily generate some encryption keys and deliver them automatically to the Microsoft.net enabled e-mail client. Of course, Microsoft will try to make these encryption schemas for passport users only.
Companies like AOL and Yahoo will probably join shortly afterwards. Security will not be perfect, but much better than now.
What the open-source community can do for encryption is, for example, to make KDE Mail start with a gpg key generation wizard on first use, have a graphical key management utility preinstalled (Gnu Privacy Assistant) and accessible from KDE Mail, and make key distribution even easier (automatically retrieve from key servers, automatically upload to key servers). Finally, KDE Mail should have an option that automatically encrypts to recipients whose public key is known.
In those good ol' days we all hand-coded our own OS - the difference between those good ol' days and NewOS is the degree of compleksity, networking and the hero: Linus.
European companies with european business culture often dislike having american workers. This is also a reason to go for an American company, or an American owned company.
I have worked together with americans in a european company, and must admit, that the difference did prevent useful work from being done.
0% must be between 0,0% and 0,5% - but it's still extremely good. Actually, I think I have experienced something like that before - I think it was some kind of Microsoft tool.
Oracle can do many things that MySQL cannot do. A more reasonable contender against Oracle would be Interbase, which is also open-source, but even Interbase 6.x can be bought!! What you get is a license with some support. The danish banks use this and pay for Interbase 6.x clients.
What Oracle provides is a big framework with education, client development tools etc. The closest I can imagine to that on Interbase would be Borland Delphi, which only now is being released in a Linux version. But the support behind using Delphi and Interbase has no long history and is therefore a bad choice in the eyes of many CIOs.
Being used to deploy Windows software for the last 20 years, and being used to support that crap, I have always wanted to replace it with something more manageable. You never hear Linux-only people complain about Windows - it's mostly people who use Windows on a daily basis that complain.
Since it's quite hard to sell a product to a governmental department with a clear policy not to use that product, I see it as a big sales success.
Being self-employed, I see it as very important, that work is fun. According to Linus Thorvalds, "the major design goal of Linux is... it is meant to be fun", and it IS.
There are so many people out there, that still believe in the Microsoft religion, and if you want to earn money, you have to learn to speak their language. Microsoft Access is such a language.
Our company has introduced the first Linux server into a government organization (Vejle Amt in Denmark) with a policy of not using Linux. The CIO has decided to try Linux in this database project, because it was based on technologies, that could be transferred to Microsoft servers immediately, if anything should go wrong (Interbase, PHP). This was the only way we could sell them something Linux based.
Their current solution is an Interbase database with a PHP-based HTML interface for simple tasks. Complex tasks are done with Microsoft Access (via ODBC), and the Access programming is partly made by the governmental organization, partly by us.
The current experience is very, very good, and because the solution is based on Linux, further adoption of Linux based servers is very likely.
I can tell you, that it was a very special moment for me when the first Linux server was put into approved daily duty in an organization with a clear policy of not using Linux. And until now, Linux has proven to be a very wise choice.
I hope they will replace Access with something else, too, one day.
If the army starts to use GPL'ed software inside their cruise missiles, they will have to find new ways how to distribute the source code to those who also receive the binaries...;-)
Recent benchmarks show that Linux 2.4 narrows the performance gap between FreeBSD and Linux, but Linux isn't there yet. As long as FreeBSD and Linux are different, FreeBSD will exist, BECAUSE it is different (and works, of course).
On the other side, the difference between Linux and FreeBSD might get very small once Linux 2.6 gets out. This would make FreeBSD a niche-product...
Nice screenshots, especially the mirrored one at the bottom, but look again and you will see that the labels are NOT mirrored. So in hebrew, the translator has to type all words backwards...
- User interface isn't multitasking well.
- Only one user at a time (annoying if your girlfriend uses the PC with the CD writer...)
- If drivers don't work 100% perfectly, Windows is unstable, and you might end up reinstalling everything.
- Lacks a lot of tools in standard installation, like ImageMagick, a good telnet, ssh, pdf viewer, good GUI FTP, image editor etc...
- Cannot be used as a file-server on a LAN, unless you control the setup of the other PCs. This is very annoying in appartment buildings with LAN.
- Costs a whole lot of money. If I would use Windows 2000 for all that I use Linux for, I had to invest at least $10.000 in software alone.
Linux just works better. In Linux, errors are fixed. In Windows, errors need workarounds.
It was born Nascom Pascal, then Compas Pascal, later Poly Pascal, Turbo Pascal and then Borland Pascal and Delphi. I started with Compaq Pascal, before Borland got involved in the product, and have seen Nascom Pascal being used.
This morning we found out that an important RH6 server has been hacked. A lot of programs have been replaced by hacked versions: ls,ps,ssh,sshd,netstat etc. In order to be sure that everything is as it should, we have to reinstall. With ReiserFS, it seems...
I know several programmers at a danish company named Syntax, who use extreme programming, and they are very happy with it.
It often leads to better results simply because the customer needs to be more involved. The problem is, that some customers don't want to get involved. This means that extreme programming won't take over the world.
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There were many graphical designers etc., with no education, that earned good money. Since their knowledge was really small when it comes to computers, their worth on the job market is virtually zero. Their problem is, that they had status, money, and an interesting job. They won't accept to go as low as a job at McDonald's.
I use one of these guys, who litterally works for bandwidth!!! Just to stay in the business and have something to show, if a potential employer asks him about what he has done.
Microsoft .net will introduce identities with its passport service. Knowing the identity of the user, Microsoft can easily generate some encryption keys and deliver them automatically to the Microsoft .net enabled e-mail client. Of course, Microsoft will try to make these encryption schemas for passport users only.
Companies like AOL and Yahoo will probably join shortly afterwards. Security will not be perfect, but much better than now.
What the open-source community can do for encryption is, for example, to make KDE Mail start with a gpg key generation wizard on first use, have a graphical key management utility preinstalled (Gnu Privacy Assistant) and accessible from KDE Mail, and make key distribution even easier (automatically retrieve from key servers, automatically upload to key servers). Finally, KDE Mail should have an option that automatically encrypts to recipients whose public key is known.
In those good ol' days we all hand-coded our own OS - the difference between those good ol' days and NewOS is the degree of compleksity, networking and the hero: Linus.
European companies with european business culture often dislike having american workers. This is also a reason to go for an American company, or an American owned company.
I have worked together with americans in a european company, and must admit, that the difference did prevent useful work from being done.
Lars.
Is it named after Slash Gordon?
Nice example, but you haven't made a proof that such a program can be made, bugfree!
void main () {
printf ("Hello World\r");
}
0% must be between 0,0% and 0,5% - but it's still extremely good. Actually, I think I have experienced something like that before - I think it was some kind of Microsoft tool.
If Microsoft gets involved in such a project, they will have to build at least two rails in each direction.
Oracle can do many things that MySQL cannot do. A more reasonable contender against Oracle would be Interbase, which is also open-source, but even Interbase 6.x can be bought!! What you get is a license with some support. The danish banks use this and pay for Interbase 6.x clients.
What Oracle provides is a big framework with education, client development tools etc. The closest I can imagine to that on Interbase would be Borland Delphi, which only now is being released in a Linux version. But the support behind using Delphi and Interbase has no long history and is therefore a bad choice in the eyes of many CIOs.
Lars.
Being used to deploy Windows software for the last 20 years, and being used to support that crap, I have always wanted to replace it with something more manageable. You never hear Linux-only people complain about Windows - it's mostly people who use Windows on a daily basis that complain.
Since it's quite hard to sell a product to a governmental department with a clear policy not to use that product, I see it as a big sales success.
Being self-employed, I see it as very important, that work is fun. According to Linus Thorvalds, "the major design goal of Linux is... it is meant to be fun", and it IS.
There are so many people out there, that still believe in the Microsoft religion, and if you want to earn money, you have to learn to speak their language. Microsoft Access is such a language.
Our company has introduced the first Linux server into a government organization (Vejle Amt in Denmark) with a policy of not using Linux. The CIO has decided to try Linux in this database project, because it was based on technologies, that could be transferred to Microsoft servers immediately, if anything should go wrong (Interbase, PHP). This was the only way we could sell them something Linux based.
Their current solution is an Interbase database with a PHP-based HTML interface for simple tasks. Complex tasks are done with Microsoft Access (via ODBC), and the Access programming is partly made by the governmental organization, partly by us.
The current experience is very, very good, and because the solution is based on Linux, further adoption of Linux based servers is very likely.
I can tell you, that it was a very special moment for me when the first Linux server was put into approved daily duty in an organization with a clear policy of not using Linux. And until now, Linux has proven to be a very wise choice.
I hope they will replace Access with something else, too, one day.
As long as it isn't a decision by the judge, this is only of interest to lawyers, not ./ readers.
If the army starts to use GPL'ed software inside their cruise missiles, they will have to find new ways how to distribute the source code to those who also receive the binaries... ;-)
Suddenly the word "binaries" gets a new meaning.
As your link says: "Works by the U. S. Government are not eligible for U. S. copyright protection."
This means that if the U.S.Government improves something GPL'ed, they may not redistribute it because it would violate the GPL?
If you included other GPL'ed source code in the software, the case is extremely clear...
The law operates with "copies for personal use", and that's what the fee is about. It doesn't allow you to make any number of copies.
I still think it's stupid.
Lars.
Recent benchmarks show that Linux 2.4 narrows the performance gap between FreeBSD and Linux, but Linux isn't there yet. As long as FreeBSD and Linux are different, FreeBSD will exist, BECAUSE it is different (and works, of course).
On the other side, the difference between Linux and FreeBSD might get very small once Linux 2.6 gets out. This would make FreeBSD a niche-product...
Lars.
Nice screenshots, especially the mirrored one at the bottom, but look again and you will see that the labels are NOT mirrored. So in hebrew, the translator has to type all words backwards...
There are many problems with Windows 2000:
- User interface isn't multitasking well.
- Only one user at a time (annoying if your girlfriend uses the PC with the CD writer...)
- If drivers don't work 100% perfectly, Windows is unstable, and you might end up reinstalling everything.
- Lacks a lot of tools in standard installation, like ImageMagick, a good telnet, ssh, pdf viewer, good GUI FTP, image editor etc...
- Cannot be used as a file-server on a LAN, unless you control the setup of the other PCs. This is very annoying in appartment buildings with LAN.
- Costs a whole lot of money. If I would use Windows 2000 for all that I use Linux for, I had to invest at least $10.000 in software alone.
Linux just works better. In Linux, errors are fixed. In Windows, errors need workarounds.
Now that Microsoft says that my Linux has no future, I'd better install Windows 2000. Why did I ever do something that Microsoft didn't tell me to do?
It was born Nascom Pascal, then Compas Pascal, later Poly Pascal, Turbo Pascal and then Borland Pascal and Delphi. I started with Compaq Pascal, before Borland got involved in the product, and have seen Nascom Pascal being used.
This morning we found out that an important RH6 server has been hacked. A lot of programs have been replaced by hacked versions: ls,ps,ssh,sshd,netstat etc. In order to be sure that everything is as it should, we have to reinstall. With ReiserFS, it seems...
I know several programmers at a danish company named Syntax, who use extreme programming, and they are very happy with it.
It often leads to better results simply because the customer needs to be more involved. The problem is, that some customers don't want to get involved. This means that extreme programming won't take over the world.
It is legal, but the EU commision works on a directive on the subject right now.