I work on a remote island in the Caribbean, Middle Caicos, via the Internet. There are only about 100 people on this island, no stores or distractions. I go fishing in my backyard almost everyday before work. I'm sitting on my laptop on the porch with the ocean in the background during work. And at the end of the day I go fishing again, or lobster hunting once the season re-opens, or just take a nice float in the ocean with a beer.
If you can work remote, I highly suggest making the jump to really be remote. I couldn't be happier.
You're forgetting about the Yahoo Store (Paul Graham's old Viaweb) of which I operate a pretty big site www.carguygarage.com
From what I understand, it's one of Yahoo's most profitable parts. I know I pay them a bunch-o-money every month.
You need to get away from the screens. In the summer, nothing relaxes me like going for a boat ride - even if it's just a little row boat - it's a great way to disconnect from the world from a while. You're on your own when you're on the water. In the winter, I love taking my shotgun out to the local gun club and shooting trap (clay pigeons.) Video games can be fun, and you can try and boot up the old "Duck Hunter" but all that does is give you more time behind a screen... you can pick up a shotgun for less than a PS3 and really get out some aggression trying your best to break clay.
Keep experimenting with different hobbies that get you outside and away from screens. With boating and shooting, you really don't need another person to do them with - which is nice when you just need a break from the world for a while.
I live in Chicago, the city - not a suburb, around O'Hare. I saw a coyote on my way home from work last week. It was about 5:30 in the afternoon, the coyote was watching rush hour traffic roll by standing on the side of the road. I've seen them around here my whole life, I'm 32. The coyotes have been around here far longer than us humans have, it's native here - not like introducing some weird outside creature. They aren't that big, smaller than the pitbulls around here, I don't see what the big deal is?
Ha, bikes are for ugly people -- how many hot chicks do you see on Harley's? Unless saggy boobs and leather pitted faces are you thing...
Get yourself a boat! I go out almost every weekend to places like Blarney Island here in Illinois, bikini clad women everywhere! And you'll find boaters are a whole group of fun party people.
I live about 5 minutes from OHare airport. There's a small town that's about 10 minutes away that's currently a ghost town with boarded up houses - some of those houses were actually pretty nice places too - but they needed to expand OHare and that's where they are going to put it.
Chicago does have poor transportation within the city, but it's also poor between cities with exploding airports. Obama should be looking at high speed rail to connect the nation, it'll only help make it cheaper to improve city transportation in the end. GM should re-tool their plants to build high speed rails.
I write in Perl almost everyday. They should build in a lot of the CPAN modules so that they will be documented better (with another camel) and I won't have to dig on CPAN for things a lot of new languages come with out of the box. Yes, it's easy to install modules, but many are almost standards at this point and should be brought into the language.
In ecommerce, it's Sunday and Monday that have the heaviest traffic days. Friday and Saturday are the lightest. Oddly enough, it seems although Sunday may be a heavy traffic day, it's not a day people like to buy on - they'd rather buy on Monday, which is why you'll see most of your spam marketing on Monday. This is unlike other non-ecommerce web sites I've worked with, when it's more of a browsing web site for information or entertainment it seems like Thursdays are better... don't take my experiences as science though, I'm just a small fish in big surf.
A couple years after college, I had the same problem with weight. One day I just decided I was going to start running to get rid of it. I started running about a mile before work everyday, however fast (or slow) didn't matter as long as I finished. Eventually what seemed almost impossible the first day, became easier and easier as the weeks went by. I registered for some 5K races (3.1 miles) which gave me some goals to train for, and a couple of years later I actually finished 2 Chicago marathons.
All you need is a pair of shoes to start, eventually you'll learn about the different shoes and clothing to wear, but you don't need to really worry about that stuff until you're able to run a couple miles without thinking it's far. You don't need anyone to train with, you just need enough of a drive to say you're going to do it -- in the rain, in the snow, you run. I find it best to do before work because if you get in the habit, you don't have an excuse not to do it.
I'm still running, did 5 miles this morning at about a 7 min 30 sec per mile pace. I don't know if I'll do another marathon, but if I don't run in the morning now the whole day just doesn't feel right.
I agree. I'm trying to hire new people and teach them GIMP and the above mentioned things that make it different than PhotoShop make my new hire training time much longer than it needs to be. Right now I'm on the verge of switching to PhotoShop from GIMP so that I don't have to train the new people on GIMP. You can easily hire someone who already knows PhotoShop, but people look at you weird when you ask them if they know GIMP during an interview -- try it sometime.
What do we do to get GIMP where it needs to be? I don't have time to install all the stuff you need to install after you install GIMP either; it needs to just install it all for me so that when I hire new people I can set up a machine for them and they can just run with it.
Is this just a matter of sending funds to the GIMP team and then it'll all work like it needs to?
Well I remember not too long ago about how Lenovo would not install or support Linux. And the first comment on that page, "They'll come crawling back to us when Vista turns out to be a flop."
I was at the race and was looking for Tux, but with the logo on the nose cone of the car there was no way to see it unless the car was standing still and you had a zoom lens.
If this Tux500 thing had something to offer me, like access to the garages, I would have helped out with the sponsorship. To just give money to get a Tux sticker on a car seems like something Red Hat or Novell should be doing, not me. Although I'm sure the guy who thought of this idea had access to the pits, garages, or anywhere else he wanted to go...
I've jumped between a few different Linux flavors and the first thing I do now is set up YUM at prompt with as many repositories as I can find at the time I set it up (because once I set it up, I don't have time to bother with it again.) When I switched to SuSE on this laptop, it was the first time I met YaST which appears to be the "Control Panel" knock off, and I still haven't figured out how to make it work correctly... and why is it so slow?
All I know now is I can go to prompt, type in:
yum install inkscape
Then I watch all the work spew across the screen, it asks me if it's okay to install a bunch of stuff I've never heard of and I press "y" then it spews a bunch more stuff... then it gives me a completed message . Done. The best part about the whole thing is that when I find a new open source application that I'm interested in, all I have to do is type in one line at prompt, and it's installed.
The problem is to install yum with all the repositories you'll want will take you reading through a bunch of half written blog instructions written by NASA engineers.
The answer to how to install software easily has been figured out. The problem is installing and setting up the application that then installs applications.
They really have the potential to become something like a paid DMOZ. I'd write up something about my company, post it to their business section, and pay them to get it listed.
For years I've been searching for an open source application that would manage large mailing lists and have the marketing know-how of the Lsoft Listserv/Maestro bundle. I finally found it a couple months ago --
http://www.openemm.com/http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemm
The application is a single server spin off of the paid version by Agnitas in Germany. Once I installed it, I was so impressed with what this application does that I'm actually getting involved in the open source project. I'm assuming that's just going to be the trend: find the application you want in the open source world and since someone else has already invested a lot of time into the code, you feel almost obligated to help out.
Microsoft is seeing open source applications, like SugarCRM, come into the business market and fast. These open source applications have to run well on Microsoft operating systems, but right now they run better on Linux. For example, that's why they're partnering up to make PHP run better on M$ products.
I think they tried to do this on their own with Longhorn, and although it may come out at the end of the month, I doubt it's what they originally had planned. With Novell losing their top 3 kernal programmers to Oracle in the last few months here, this may be exactly what Novell needed to keep SuSE alive.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is really just a rebraded version of Fedora Core.
http://www.redhat.com/fedora "The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community supported open source project."
This move by Oracle may make The Fedora Project something Red Hat can't financially maintain, or at least not alone. If you watched Ellison's speech, the first half of it was to attack the mainframe hardware market and replace it with PC Linux grids which is a direct threat to IBM who has been aggressively trying to revive the mainframe hardware market.
So what if Red Hat didn't sponsor The Fedora Project anymore? Their business model is based on supporting Linux, not developing it which is The Fedora Project. Maybe a company like IBM will start to support The Fedora Project and we'll start to see grid computing mainframes.
Isn't Red Hat Enterprise Level just a stable copy of Fedora? I thought that was the idea of the Fedora Project, to be the leader in cutting edge and frequent updates. RHEL is the supported sable version.
The 50% off deal is only until January 31st, 2007. These guys are both just searching for a price point - watch the video on Oracle's site, this is a total BS roll of the dice by Larry Ellison who hasn't a clue what game he's playing right now.
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I work on a remote island in the Caribbean, Middle Caicos, via the Internet. There are only about 100 people on this island, no stores or distractions. I go fishing in my backyard almost everyday before work. I'm sitting on my laptop on the porch with the ocean in the background during work. And at the end of the day I go fishing again, or lobster hunting once the season re-opens, or just take a nice float in the ocean with a beer. If you can work remote, I highly suggest making the jump to really be remote. I couldn't be happier.
"we used to have small, simple programs" Seems you've never worked with JCL
You're forgetting about the Yahoo Store (Paul Graham's old Viaweb) of which I operate a pretty big site www.carguygarage.com From what I understand, it's one of Yahoo's most profitable parts. I know I pay them a bunch-o-money every month.
Call these guys, they did a 3D Google Sketchup of my garage with all the storage options I wanted - http://www.carguygarage.com
By Cumberland Ave and Lawrence Ave
You need to get away from the screens. In the summer, nothing relaxes me like going for a boat ride - even if it's just a little row boat - it's a great way to disconnect from the world from a while. You're on your own when you're on the water. In the winter, I love taking my shotgun out to the local gun club and shooting trap (clay pigeons.) Video games can be fun, and you can try and boot up the old "Duck Hunter" but all that does is give you more time behind a screen... you can pick up a shotgun for less than a PS3 and really get out some aggression trying your best to break clay.
Keep experimenting with different hobbies that get you outside and away from screens. With boating and shooting, you really don't need another person to do them with - which is nice when you just need a break from the world for a while.
I live in Chicago, the city - not a suburb, around O'Hare. I saw a coyote on my way home from work last week. It was about 5:30 in the afternoon, the coyote was watching rush hour traffic roll by standing on the side of the road. I've seen them around here my whole life, I'm 32. The coyotes have been around here far longer than us humans have, it's native here - not like introducing some weird outside creature. They aren't that big, smaller than the pitbulls around here, I don't see what the big deal is?
Ha, bikes are for ugly people -- how many hot chicks do you see on Harley's? Unless saggy boobs and leather pitted faces are you thing... Get yourself a boat! I go out almost every weekend to places like Blarney Island here in Illinois, bikini clad women everywhere! And you'll find boaters are a whole group of fun party people.
I live about 5 minutes from OHare airport. There's a small town that's about 10 minutes away that's currently a ghost town with boarded up houses - some of those houses were actually pretty nice places too - but they needed to expand OHare and that's where they are going to put it.
Chicago does have poor transportation within the city, but it's also poor between cities with exploding airports. Obama should be looking at high speed rail to connect the nation, it'll only help make it cheaper to improve city transportation in the end. GM should re-tool their plants to build high speed rails.
I write in Perl almost everyday. They should build in a lot of the CPAN modules so that they will be documented better (with another camel) and I won't have to dig on CPAN for things a lot of new languages come with out of the box. Yes, it's easy to install modules, but many are almost standards at this point and should be brought into the language.
In ecommerce, it's Sunday and Monday that have the heaviest traffic days. Friday and Saturday are the lightest. Oddly enough, it seems although Sunday may be a heavy traffic day, it's not a day people like to buy on - they'd rather buy on Monday, which is why you'll see most of your spam marketing on Monday. This is unlike other non-ecommerce web sites I've worked with, when it's more of a browsing web site for information or entertainment it seems like Thursdays are better... don't take my experiences as science though, I'm just a small fish in big surf.
It's the JCL that will kill you, the COBOL is brain dead easy if you can program in any other language.
A couple years after college, I had the same problem with weight. One day I just decided I was going to start running to get rid of it. I started running about a mile before work everyday, however fast (or slow) didn't matter as long as I finished. Eventually what seemed almost impossible the first day, became easier and easier as the weeks went by. I registered for some 5K races (3.1 miles) which gave me some goals to train for, and a couple of years later I actually finished 2 Chicago marathons.
All you need is a pair of shoes to start, eventually you'll learn about the different shoes and clothing to wear, but you don't need to really worry about that stuff until you're able to run a couple miles without thinking it's far. You don't need anyone to train with, you just need enough of a drive to say you're going to do it -- in the rain, in the snow, you run. I find it best to do before work because if you get in the habit, you don't have an excuse not to do it.
I'm still running, did 5 miles this morning at about a 7 min 30 sec per mile pace. I don't know if I'll do another marathon, but if I don't run in the morning now the whole day just doesn't feel right.
I agree. I'm trying to hire new people and teach them GIMP and the above mentioned things that make it different than PhotoShop make my new hire training time much longer than it needs to be. Right now I'm on the verge of switching to PhotoShop from GIMP so that I don't have to train the new people on GIMP. You can easily hire someone who already knows PhotoShop, but people look at you weird when you ask them if they know GIMP during an interview -- try it sometime.
What do we do to get GIMP where it needs to be? I don't have time to install all the stuff you need to install after you install GIMP either; it needs to just install it all for me so that when I hire new people I can set up a machine for them and they can just run with it.
Is this just a matter of sending funds to the GIMP team and then it'll all work like it needs to?
Well I remember not too long ago about how Lenovo would not install or support Linux. And the first comment on that page, "They'll come crawling back to us when Vista turns out to be a flop."
Ha.
I was at the race and was looking for Tux, but with the logo on the nose cone of the car there was no way to see it unless the car was standing still and you had a zoom lens.
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Here's some of my videos (I know, I need a new camera) --
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-54575453
Here's my pictures, although you won't see Tux in them --
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/head_dunce/album/5764
If this Tux500 thing had something to offer me, like access to the garages, I would have helped out with the sponsorship. To just give money to get a Tux sticker on a car seems like something Red Hat or Novell should be doing, not me. Although I'm sure the guy who thought of this idea had access to the pits, garages, or anywhere else he wanted to go...
I've jumped between a few different Linux flavors and the first thing I do now is set up YUM at prompt with as many repositories as I can find at the time I set it up (because once I set it up, I don't have time to bother with it again.) When I switched to SuSE on this laptop, it was the first time I met YaST which appears to be the "Control Panel" knock off, and I still haven't figured out how to make it work correctly... and why is it so slow?
All I know now is I can go to prompt, type in:
yum install inkscape
Then I watch all the work spew across the screen, it asks me if it's okay to install a bunch of stuff I've never heard of and I press "y" then it spews a bunch more stuff... then it gives me a completed message . Done. The best part about the whole thing is that when I find a new open source application that I'm interested in, all I have to do is type in one line at prompt, and it's installed.
The problem is to install yum with all the repositories you'll want will take you reading through a bunch of half written blog instructions written by NASA engineers.
The answer to how to install software easily has been figured out. The problem is installing and setting up the application that then installs applications.
They really have the potential to become something like a paid DMOZ. I'd write up something about my company, post it to their business section, and pay them to get it listed.
I don't understand why this isn't already in place, there are already companies who have posted their information on Wikipedia, how is that not advertising?
For years I've been searching for an open source application that would manage large mailing lists and have the marketing know-how of the Lsoft Listserv/Maestro bundle. I finally found it a couple months ago -- http://www.openemm.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/openemm The application is a single server spin off of the paid version by Agnitas in Germany. Once I installed it, I was so impressed with what this application does that I'm actually getting involved in the open source project. I'm assuming that's just going to be the trend: find the application you want in the open source world and since someone else has already invested a lot of time into the code, you feel almost obligated to help out.
It worked for Red Hat, now they have big money invested in their systemsl ?.v=1
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/070129/20070129005032.htm
Microsoft is seeing open source applications, like SugarCRM, come into the business market and fast. These open source applications have to run well on Microsoft operating systems, but right now they run better on Linux. For example, that's why they're partnering up to make PHP run better on M$ products. I think they tried to do this on their own with Longhorn, and although it may come out at the end of the month, I doubt it's what they originally had planned. With Novell losing their top 3 kernal programmers to Oracle in the last few months here, this may be exactly what Novell needed to keep SuSE alive.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is really just a rebraded version of Fedora Core.
http://www.redhat.com/fedora
"The Fedora Project is a Red Hat sponsored and community supported open source project."
This move by Oracle may make The Fedora Project something Red Hat can't financially maintain, or at least not alone. If you watched Ellison's speech, the first half of it was to attack the mainframe hardware market and replace it with PC Linux grids which is a direct threat to IBM who has been aggressively trying to revive the mainframe hardware market.
So what if Red Hat didn't sponsor The Fedora Project anymore? Their business model is based on supporting Linux, not developing it which is The Fedora Project. Maybe a company like IBM will start to support The Fedora Project and we'll start to see grid computing mainframes.
Isn't Red Hat Enterprise Level just a stable copy of Fedora? I thought that was the idea of the Fedora Project, to be the leader in cutting edge and frequent updates. RHEL is the supported sable version. The 50% off deal is only until January 31st, 2007. These guys are both just searching for a price point - watch the video on Oracle's site, this is a total BS roll of the dice by Larry Ellison who hasn't a clue what game he's playing right now.
This same idea was used by Turbo Linux years ago.
Doesn't this then make Oracle a client of Red Hat in the bigger picture?
Froogle just links to your current web pages/shopping cart application -- this sounds like they'll be your shopping cart application. Big difference.