Aha...you have found us out! Quick, while the still don't suspect us, all the boat schoolers on./ should...oh hell, I've been retired too long; I can't come up with a plan. Any USNA./'ers class of '85 or later, just grab this and run with it.
Honestly, I can't think of any way you could more effectively kill the Internet as an effective tool than putting the U.N. in charge of it. The monolithic U.S. government somehow managed to sponsor and assemble the first truly functional ananarchical system in the history of mankind, and now the bureaucrats want to regulate it because they are appalled by the fact that "no one is in charge!" (The fact that it actually works is a threat to bureaucracy everywhere...)
Check CDs out of your local public library. Listen. Return. One CD works for several thousand citizens.
Your tax dollars paid for that CD. You're a "part owner". Rip to MP3. Don't incur the RIAA's wrath by sharing those MP3s and they'll NEVER KNOW.
Library doesn't have what you want to hear? Request it! Most libraries build their music collections based on patron requests, and many will have your album of choice within a week or two.
Simple. Efficient. Free. And it helps keep libraries in business--far better institutions to support than RIAA.
End-users, the ultimate audience and market-share, really, really, really don't give a damn about the pieces/parts. To them, an operating system is just another piece of the computer and in the end is really something they'd rather not think about. This insistance on distinguishing the pieces is one of the geek handicaps to mainstream acceptance of Linux. Even the whole "Linux - GNU/Linux" debate turns people off fast. They don't care what you call it or what the parts are; they only care about what it does, and does it meet their needs.
I met Tim O'Reilly at Gnomedex in '03 (before Chris Pirillo went Hollywood on us Midwesterners and moved it to California) where he was speaking about Open Source. As he spoke I found a copy of a previous Powerpoint from a similar but not identical talk he had previously given, and updated to exactly match his Gnomedex talk. He graciously gave me permission to post the presentation on my blog and was a real pleasure to meet and talk to. He's a real down-to-earth guy. I'm told the other famous Tim in IT, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is much the same way but I have not had the pleasure of meeting him. Anyway, I love O'Reilly's books, and their books by Jennifer Niederst, Web Design in a Nutshell and Learning Web Design, are the perfect books for my basic Web Design course.
You certainly are a "sad anonymous coward". My dad died as a result of his military service--he served with the Marines in China, Korea and Vietnam--and he would be SO delighted to see a state government selecting Open Source Software. I really fail to see how not selecting Microsoft could possibly be pissing on you Dad's grave. Contrary to what they what have you believe, Microsoft is not America, and Open Source is neither un-American nor un-patriotic. I think you've been sold a bill of goods by the richest man in the world. (By the way, I did my 21 years of military service, too--how about you?)
It is still illegal to import any material written in Chinese into Indonesia; the assumption seems to be that the material might be revolutionary or seditious and the Customs officials can't tell, since they can't read Chinese.
An even better alternative is what I am a part of: a DEGREE in IT, which ensures that you have at least basic competence in a broad range of IT skills (in our program we include 1) hardware and operating systems; 2) networking; 3) HTML & Web design; 4) data management and database; and 5) programming). Everyone in the program, undergraduate or graduate, must demonstrate competence in in these areas. Graduate students then go on to take 21 hours more in IT technical and IT management disciplines. Undergraduates complete two hardware and operating systems courses including A+ and basic UNIX & shell scripting; both an introductory networking course and a system and network security course; one course in HTML & Web design; one course in database theory and practical application using Access; and three courses in programming in both C++ and Java. Additionally all undergrads take IT Project Management and 18 hours (six courses) of IT electives. Testing? Trust me, before you get the degree, you've been tested! Certifications? Most courses in our program that relate to a certification are taught to cover all the elements of the certification plus much more. CompTIA (A+, Network+, Linux+, iNet+, Project+), Sun and Oracle are just a few of the curricula we incorporate. And all of our courses that include hands-on, practical curricula also teach the underlying theory so there is a solid base of understanding to build on as the technology evolves. This is not an ad: I just want to point out the potential value of a degree in IT as opposed to mere certifications. (Particulary a degree from a real university and not just a for-profit diploma mill.)
From long standing experience trying to deal with other government agencies (most notably the Naval Historical Center, http://www.history.navy.mil/) I can attest that many agencies really do not want to deal with any form of electronic communication and will be far more responsive to written communication delivered via snail mail. They will also pay far more attention to your letter if you write it yourself IN YOUR OWN WORDS as whenever they get another copy of a standardized letter it just goes on the pile with the thought "oh, here's another one of these". I'm writing; you should to!
If you read the article you can plainly see that ISS and Cisco have had a restraining order imposed; this is not a "law suit", but it certainly does not preclude them from doing that as well.
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn Select last night.
Actually there's quite a bit of free classical music out there; try http://www.classiccat.net/, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_s ound, http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/ and http://pan.zipcon.net/. The pan.zipcon.net site (functional but not pretty; try DOWNLOAD.html to get to the music) contains much of the catalog of now-defunct Pandora Records from Seattle, who appear to to have had the foresight and courtesy to place their material in the public domain when they closed up shop. I'm sure there's much more but this was just what I found in a brief couple of hours a few months ago.
So how come you can't port SmartSuite to Linux? Or at the very least provide OpenOffice.org filters for the SmartSuite file formats?
(A loyal but frustrated SmartSuite user [and would-be Linux user] who has been locked into Windoze by Lotus...)
The Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church spent $19,000 last year for a Microsoft Exchange email system, which could easily have been done in OSS (Linux, Postfix, SquirrelMail and Mailman) for a grand total of $0.00, using a system which would have been otherwise obsolete for use as a desktop. Guess I need to write a sermon on OSS and social consciousness. At least I know at the non-profit where I work, Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for Professional Development, has all open-source production servers--at least all the ones I am responsible for!
Updating packages? Fedora, or any other distro that uses Yum or Apt, really shines at this. Just type "yum install package-name" or "apt-get install package-name" and the system resolves all dependencies, downloads & installs all the dependent packages and then downloads & installs the package. It really is simplicity itself.
This article has a) already been fixed (i.e. weird entry reflecting other that a NPOV was removed) and b) has a clear "article needs attention" flag at the top.
I'd much rather see them just outlaw software that installs without the user's knowledge or permission. This would take care of the bozos like 180solutions, which recently bought one of my colleagues' system to it's knees and took us about 2 hours to clean up. Who cares why the software is even there? Just the fact that it's there without knowledge or permission of the owner. In any other context, this type of activity would be criminal trespass.
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Man I am getting old--it's /.
/. not ./
Maybe I'm just too self-referential.
Aha...you have found us out! Quick, while the still don't suspect us, all the boat schoolers on ./ should...oh hell, I've been retired too long; I can't come up with a plan. Any USNA ./'ers class of '85 or later, just grab this and run with it.
Honestly, I can't think of any way you could more effectively kill the Internet as an effective tool than putting the U.N. in charge of it. The monolithic U.S. government somehow managed to sponsor and assemble the first truly functional ananarchical system in the history of mankind, and now the bureaucrats want to regulate it because they are appalled by the fact that "no one is in charge!" (The fact that it actually works is a threat to bureaucracy everywhere...)
Check CDs out of your local public library. Listen. Return. One CD works for several thousand citizens.
Your tax dollars paid for that CD. You're a "part owner". Rip to MP3. Don't incur the RIAA's wrath by sharing those MP3s and they'll NEVER KNOW.
Library doesn't have what you want to hear? Request it! Most libraries build their music collections based on patron requests, and many will have your album of choice within a week or two.
Simple. Efficient. Free. And it helps keep libraries in business--far better institutions to support than RIAA.
End-users, the ultimate audience and market-share, really, really, really don't give a damn about the pieces/parts. To them, an operating system is just another piece of the computer and in the end is really something they'd rather not think about. This insistance on distinguishing the pieces is one of the geek handicaps to mainstream acceptance of Linux. Even the whole "Linux - GNU/Linux" debate turns people off fast. They don't care what you call it or what the parts are; they only care about what it does, and does it meet their needs.
I met Tim O'Reilly at Gnomedex in '03 (before Chris Pirillo went Hollywood on us Midwesterners and moved it to California) where he was speaking about Open Source. As he spoke I found a copy of a previous Powerpoint from a similar but not identical talk he had previously given, and updated to exactly match his Gnomedex talk. He graciously gave me permission to post the presentation on my blog and was a real pleasure to meet and talk to. He's a real down-to-earth guy. I'm told the other famous Tim in IT, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is much the same way but I have not had the pleasure of meeting him. Anyway, I love O'Reilly's books, and their books by Jennifer Niederst, Web Design in a Nutshell and Learning Web Design, are the perfect books for my basic Web Design course.
OK, that's a fair shot. It probably was intended that way. The poster just pushed one of my buttons; some of us are a bit touchy about our dead Dads.
You certainly are a "sad anonymous coward". My dad died as a result of his military service--he served with the Marines in China, Korea and Vietnam--and he would be SO delighted to see a state government selecting Open Source Software. I really fail to see how not selecting Microsoft could possibly be pissing on you Dad's grave. Contrary to what they what have you believe, Microsoft is not America, and Open Source is neither un-American nor un-patriotic. I think you've been sold a bill of goods by the richest man in the world. (By the way, I did my 21 years of military service, too--how about you?)
They also need to whomp up a decent OpenOffice.org import filter for Lotus WordPro files.
It is still illegal to import any material written in Chinese into Indonesia; the assumption seems to be that the material might be revolutionary or seditious and the Customs officials can't tell, since they can't read Chinese.
An even better alternative is what I am a part of: a DEGREE in IT, which ensures that you have at least basic competence in a broad range of IT skills (in our program we include 1) hardware and operating systems; 2) networking; 3) HTML & Web design; 4) data management and database; and 5) programming). Everyone in the program, undergraduate or graduate, must demonstrate competence in in these areas. Graduate students then go on to take 21 hours more in IT technical and IT management disciplines. Undergraduates complete two hardware and operating systems courses including A+ and basic UNIX & shell scripting; both an introductory networking course and a system and network security course; one course in HTML & Web design; one course in database theory and practical application using Access; and three courses in programming in both C++ and Java. Additionally all undergrads take IT Project Management and 18 hours (six courses) of IT electives. Testing? Trust me, before you get the degree, you've been tested! Certifications? Most courses in our program that relate to a certification are taught to cover all the elements of the certification plus much more. CompTIA (A+, Network+, Linux+, iNet+, Project+), Sun and Oracle are just a few of the curricula we incorporate. And all of our courses that include hands-on, practical curricula also teach the underlying theory so there is a solid base of understanding to build on as the technology evolves. This is not an ad: I just want to point out the potential value of a degree in IT as opposed to mere certifications. (Particulary a degree from a real university and not just a for-profit diploma mill.)
From long standing experience trying to deal with other government agencies (most notably the Naval Historical Center, http://www.history.navy.mil/) I can attest that many agencies really do not want to deal with any form of electronic communication and will be far more responsive to written communication delivered via snail mail. They will also pay far more attention to your letter if you write it yourself IN YOUR OWN WORDS as whenever they get another copy of a standardized letter it just goes on the pile with the thought "oh, here's another one of these". I'm writing; you should to!
If you read the article you can plainly see that ISS and Cisco have had a restraining order imposed; this is not a "law suit", but it certainly does not preclude them from doing that as well. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV nor did I stay in a Holiday Inn Select last night.
You can use all the Wikipedia references you want in our classes: http://www.itm.iit.edu/!
Actually there's quite a bit of free classical music out there; try http://www.classiccat.net/, http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Music_s ound, http://hebb.mit.edu/FreeMusic/ and http://pan.zipcon.net/. The pan.zipcon.net site (functional but not pretty; try DOWNLOAD.html to get to the music) contains much of the catalog of now-defunct Pandora Records from Seattle, who appear to to have had the foresight and courtesy to place their material in the public domain when they closed up shop. I'm sure there's much more but this was just what I found in a brief couple of hours a few months ago.
So how come you can't port SmartSuite to Linux? Or at the very least provide OpenOffice.org filters for the SmartSuite file formats? (A loyal but frustrated SmartSuite user [and would-be Linux user] who has been locked into Windoze by Lotus...)
The Northern Illinois Conference of the United Methodist Church spent $19,000 last year for a Microsoft Exchange email system, which could easily have been done in OSS (Linux, Postfix, SquirrelMail and Mailman) for a grand total of $0.00, using a system which would have been otherwise obsolete for use as a desktop. Guess I need to write a sermon on OSS and social consciousness. At least I know at the non-profit where I work, Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for Professional Development, has all open-source production servers--at least all the ones I am responsible for!
Updating packages? Fedora, or any other distro that uses Yum or Apt, really shines at this. Just type "yum install package-name" or "apt-get install package-name" and the system resolves all dependencies, downloads & installs all the dependent packages and then downloads & installs the package. It really is simplicity itself.
This article has a) already been fixed (i.e. weird entry reflecting other that a NPOV was removed) and b) has a clear "article needs attention" flag at the top.
From one proud to be a Wikipedian.
I'd much rather see them just outlaw software that installs without the user's knowledge or permission. This would take care of the bozos like 180solutions, which recently bought one of my colleagues' system to it's knees and took us about 2 hours to clean up. Who cares why the software is even there? Just the fact that it's there without knowledge or permission of the owner. In any other context, this type of activity would be criminal trespass.