Here is an idea that is considered highly dangerous and will scare any corporate know-nothing CxO....
Ready?
Here it is....My idea is that we eliminate Microsoft Windows totally from use in our company.
Oh I said it...it's out there in the open... I'm not prowd of it, but gosh darn it I have these thoughts about things being better for the company in the long run and stuff, and they just won't go away.....now once you stop turning white in fear and start breathing again, can we get back to work?
Attn all you consipriacy groupthink nutjobs: "The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes," Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on July 14, 1994, "and that the President may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the Attorney General."
"It is important to understand," Gorelick continued, "that the rules and methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities."
Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan in 1981, provides for such warrantless searches directed against "a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power."
*FYI, Ms. Gorelick is now one of the many dishonorable surrendercrats speaking out against this latest bogus press-created non-scanal. Quite a bit of nerve to be such a hypocrite.
Yeah, that sounds right!!! I know that was it. It was soo cool, all my friends would come over and do their papers on it too. All written in assembler too! I remember adding a spellchecker to it from COMPUTE! Gazette magazine.
I used a Citizen 120D dot matrix printer, worked great.
When I went to college I used a 2400baud modem, with a vt100 emulator on a C64 (Which was only 40cols BTW), but you could hit a hot key and it would switch to this TINY FONT to show the whole 80x24 vt100 screen.
Man...I remember having to use a whole crapload of key combinations to get things like the GOLD-KEY to work for my EDT session.
But by god, my C=64 got me a pretty good ways through the first few years of engineering school including a serious amount of hacking an coding on VMS from home.
Damn, where did we go wrong? Think just don't seem as fun anymore.
>After reading the article, it's not all that clear that Apple would have the PC's penetration today.
Thats because this article sucks. It totally ignores the fact that the HOME PC market was TOTALLY DIFFERENT back then from the business market.
Until Windows 95 came out (and 3.11 to a lesser extent)... NO ONE HAD PC's AT HOME.
The home market was dominated by Commodore, Apple, Atari, Tandy, TI, etc.
The problem with this article is the graphs lump the business market, which ONLY BOUGHT IBM PC's, and mixes it all in with the market data for the home pcs.
I still believe that this is a huge mistake and doing analysis of the home market would be much more interesting.
There is not much to learn about the business PC market. They bought IBM PC's, and they bought them in huge numbers and thats pretty much it. Nothing else there to tell.
It clouds the interesting historical part of the story greatly.
What this article is totally lacking is a breakdown between the HOME and business computer markets.
There is a much more interesting story waiting to be told I think when you look at the eveolution of the home market. Things were very different than the simple story that these graphs tell.
The only REAL COMPETITION story is in the home computer market. That is where we had C=, Apple, Tandy, TI, Atari etc actually innovating and competing. The business market never even gave a single platform a chance other than IBM PC's, so I feel by including the business stuff in the story your just introducing a HUGE amount of BORING to the story.
Screw the business pc market, tell the story about the more dynamic home computer market where PC's didn't even start to make much of a splash until just before Windows311/Windows 95 came out.
Man...it was really a good magazine and good idea.
I made it through my jr/sr years in high school and through my first 3 years in college using a word processor FROM that magainze that I typed the code in myself.
Man...modding this as flamebait is pretty unfair. Even if you don't agree with the politics, it is at least a rare thoughtfully written comment which is rare enough as it is on slashdot.
Give it a bone, mod it up a point or 2 so someone might actually read it and maybe challenge their brains for a few seconds.
"By standardizing on one operating system and using other Microsoft software, the JetBlue CIO says he cut the company's technical staff by 50 percent." - sounds like a dynamic and exciting place to work in IT
"When I joined the company in January 2000 and from my inception as VP and CIO in April 2000, I standardized on the Windows platform. I chose to do that because I felt from the server platform all the way out to the desktop and back that to have one type of operating system and to be able to train one type of technician" - pure genius!
"We don't have any Unix; we don't have an AS/400; we don't have any mainframes--we don't have anything outside of Windows." - yeah... we get it from the above already.
Sounds like a blast to work there...I bet their IT people can wait to get to work, heck they probably have to push them out the building at night and lock the doors so they can't come back in and start working again until the morning.
US Colleges SUCK! We pay huge amounts of money for teachers that can't teach their way out of plastic bags let alone speak fucking english, and play silly stupid games just to get a degree.
It's a joke. I left school and learned on my own, and I mean I learned LOTS MORE on my own. I dare say my knowledge level is above my peers who went to college for the same field. And at this point, I am making more money than anyone I know who stayed in school.
Its sad, I wanted to learn lots of college but the bullshit and the teachers who can't speak english and the 300 people in a physics classroom crap just left me say fuck it.
I own a 2nd Gen iPod and just purchased a white nano. I have to agree the nano is very very very easy to scratch. I have been handling mine very carefully and it has scratches across the screen. Very disappointing. The nano is very cool and part of that is the look. Apple put a lot of effort into the design and appearance. It is disappointing that it scratches so easily.
I can't believe I would say this but if I did not have my nano personalized I would of returned it.
I got my iPod Nano last Saturday. To avoid scratches, I put it back into the plastic wrap, it came in, when I used it. But today I took it out for recharging and it was full of scratches!!!! Probably from dust (!) that crept underneath... Can you believe that ???
Really poor quality !!!
Personally, I was looking forward to getting one soon, but now I would hold off on buying one for now until this is addressed by Apple.
The problem is the LSB does not PUSH LINUX FORWARD
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The idea of a common set of standards for lots of stuff obviously has many potential benifits for Linux.
The problem with the LSB is it does not do much. What is needed is not a standard for "thou shalt have this version of libc in this directory", but instead a standards body needs to come up with "this is the way you will perform your system initilzation", "this is how you will set and store your ip networking configuration" etc...this would make YOUR skills transferable from distro to distro, would allow the community to come up with BEST OF BREED solutions for things like system configuration tools etc.
Having 1000 different distros do this stuff in 1000 different ways is WORSE THAN not being able to run Oracle on a particular distro without a little tweaking.
>Now, get real: Want to know the BIGGEST, best-kept >secret in data forensics? The most effective way to >forever put your data beyond the reach of cops and >courts is...
That's because most "cops" that do this sort of thing are only able to push the big red button on Norton's Utilities as their big secret tool for data recovery. Really, if it requires more skills than can be automated in some sort of recovery software with a big red button, then its going to be out of the reach of most normal police departments.
Hell, probably just using Linux formatted partitions is enought to make most cops who are alleged data forensics people give up.
But, I would imagine that once you get the feds involved things are a different story so don't get cocky.
>I have taken to using Adaware, Spybot, Spywareblaster, Hijackthis etc
Damn brother! Thats a lot of software to keep track of just to avoid a problem caused by a shitty OS.
Here is a tip that will help you take control of your life, stop spending so much time fighting such a unwinnable fight, and get more time to be with your friends and family.
Well, that's one way for Democrats to win elections... start "cloning" people who will vote for them. They should be able to get console of at least one part of the govt in about 30years from now.
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I thought these were great concepts myself:
r itz_zimmermann.pdf
http://www.koffice.org/competition/gui1results/mo
Real men don't make backups... the put their code on a public FTP site and let the world make copies - linus
Here is an idea that is considered highly dangerous and will scare any corporate know-nothing CxO....
....now once you stop turning white in fear and start breathing again, can we get back to work?
Ready?
Here it is....My idea is that we eliminate Microsoft Windows totally from use in our company.
Oh I said it...it's out there in the open... I'm not prowd of it, but gosh darn it I have these thoughts about things being better for the company in the long run and stuff, and they just won't go away.
Doesnt anyone else watch the "How its made" show on the science channel?p ?series=103469&gid=0&channel=SCI
m an/survivorman.html
http://science.discovery.com/
http://science.discovery.com/tvlistings/series.js
"How its made" and "Survivorman" are two of the coolest shows on TV, you have GOT TO watch survivorman if you have not seen it yet. It rocks.
http://science.discovery.com/convergence/survivor
Attn all you consipriacy groupthink nutjobs:
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"The Department of Justice believes, and the case law supports, that the president has inherent authority to conduct warrantless physical searches for foreign intelligence purposes," Deputy Attorney General Jamie Gorelick testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee on July 14, 1994, "and that the President may, as has been done, delegate this authority to the Attorney General."
"It is important to understand," Gorelick continued, "that the rules and methodology for criminal searches are inconsistent with the collection of foreign intelligence and would unduly frustrate the president in carrying out his foreign intelligence responsibilities."
Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronald Reagan in 1981, provides for such warrantless searches directed against "a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power."
http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york2005122009
*FYI, Ms. Gorelick is now one of the many dishonorable surrendercrats speaking out against this latest bogus press-created non-scanal. Quite a bit of nerve to be such a hypocrite.
Well.. thats ONE OS down.......... ONE MORE to go.
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Yeah, that sounds right!!! I know that was it. It was soo cool, all my friends would come over and do their papers on it too. All written in assembler too! I remember adding a spellchecker to it from COMPUTE! Gazette magazine.
Hey I found a version for the Atari documented here on the web, you might like to read it, its even got the codes to enter in with MLX to build it:
http://www.atariarchives.org/speedscript/ch2.php#
Someone else posting about speedscript on the C64 here too:
http://www.troyandjessica.com/article/12/ode-to-t
Found a manual here:
http://project64.c64.org/misc/SpeedScript%203.2.t
I used a Citizen 120D dot matrix printer, worked great.
When I went to college I used a 2400baud modem, with a vt100 emulator on a C64 (Which was only 40cols BTW), but you could hit a hot key and it would switch to this TINY FONT to show the whole 80x24 vt100 screen.
Man...I remember having to use a whole crapload of key combinations to get things like the GOLD-KEY to work for my EDT session.
But by god, my C=64 got me a pretty good ways through the first few years of engineering school including a serious amount of hacking an coding on VMS from home.
Damn, where did we go wrong? Think just don't seem as fun anymore.
>After reading the article, it's not all that clear that Apple would have the PC's penetration today.
Thats because this article sucks. It totally ignores the fact that the HOME PC market was TOTALLY DIFFERENT back then from the business market.
Until Windows 95 came out (and 3.11 to a lesser extent)... NO ONE HAD PC's AT HOME.
The home market was dominated by Commodore, Apple, Atari, Tandy, TI, etc.
The problem with this article is the graphs lump the business market, which ONLY BOUGHT IBM PC's, and mixes it all in with the market data for the home pcs.
I still believe that this is a huge mistake and doing analysis of the home market would be much more interesting.
There is not much to learn about the business PC market. They bought IBM PC's, and they bought them in huge numbers and thats pretty much it. Nothing else there to tell.
It clouds the interesting historical part of the story greatly.
What this article is totally lacking is a breakdown between the HOME and business computer markets.
There is a much more interesting story waiting to be told I think when you look at the eveolution of the home market. Things were very different than the simple story that these graphs tell.
The only REAL COMPETITION story is in the home computer market. That is where we had C=, Apple, Tandy, TI, Atari etc actually innovating and competing. The business market never even gave a single platform a chance other than IBM PC's, so I feel by including the business stuff in the story your just introducing a HUGE amount of BORING to the story.
Screw the business pc market, tell the story about the more dynamic home computer market where PC's didn't even start to make much of a splash until just before Windows311/Windows 95 came out.
Man...it was really a good magazine and good idea.
I made it through my jr/sr years in high school and through my first 3 years in college using a word processor FROM that magainze that I typed the code in myself.
MOD THIS UP.
:)
This pretty much sum's it all up....good job at boiling pretty much all the other comments down to a few bullet points.
Could you help me with my next presentation to the CIO???
Man...modding this as flamebait is pretty unfair. Even if you don't agree with the politics, it is at least a rare thoughtfully written comment which is rare enough as it is on slashdot.
Give it a bone, mod it up a point or 2 so someone might actually read it and maybe challenge their brains for a few seconds.
We have this already..it's called the SNIA SMI... have you not heard of it?
..no thanks IBM.
http://www.snia.org/smi/home
Check this out to do what you want.
This is the one of the coolest companies out there and their product is better than anything EMC has for storage.
http://www.falconstor.com/
Ah yes!! The company who gave us these jewels of knowledge.
http://news.com.com/2008-1082-997868.html
"By standardizing on one operating system and using other Microsoft software, the JetBlue CIO says he cut the company's technical staff by 50 percent." - sounds like a dynamic and exciting place to work in IT
"When I joined the company in January 2000 and from my inception as VP and CIO in April 2000, I standardized on the Windows platform. I chose to do that because I felt from the server platform all the way out to the desktop and back that to have one type of operating system and to be able to train one type of technician" - pure genius!
"We don't have any Unix; we don't have an AS/400; we don't have any mainframes--we don't have anything outside of Windows." - yeah... we get it from the above already.
Sounds like a blast to work there...I bet their IT people can wait to get to work, heck they probably have to push them out the building at night and lock the doors so they can't come back in and start working again until the morning.
My comment is A-FUCKING-MEN!
US Colleges SUCK! We pay huge amounts of money for teachers that can't teach their way out of plastic bags let alone speak fucking english, and play silly stupid games just to get a degree.
It's a joke. I left school and learned on my own, and I mean I learned LOTS MORE on my own. I dare say my knowledge level is above my peers who went to college for the same field. And at this point, I am making more money than anyone I know who stayed in school.
Its sad, I wanted to learn lots of college but the bullshit and the teachers who can't speak english and the 300 people in a physics classroom crap just left me say fuck it.
There is an article in the register on this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/23/ipod_nano
From this 200 comment thread on Apple's own discussion forums: http://discussions.info.apple.com/webx?14@823.1UX
I own a 2nd Gen iPod and just purchased a white nano. I have to agree the nano is very very very easy to scratch. I have been handling mine very carefully and it has scratches across the screen. Very disappointing. The nano is very cool and part of that is the look. Apple put a lot of effort into the design and appearance. It is disappointing that it scratches so easily. I can't believe I would say this but if I did not have my nano personalized I would of returned it.
I got my iPod Nano last Saturday. To avoid scratches, I put it back into the plastic wrap, it came in, when I used it. But today I took it out for recharging and it was full of scratches!!!! Probably from dust (!) that crept underneath... Can you believe that ??? Really poor quality !!!
Personally, I was looking forward to getting one soon, but now I would hold off on buying one for now until this is addressed by Apple.
The idea of a common set of standards for lots of stuff obviously has many potential benifits for Linux.
The problem with the LSB is it does not do much. What is needed is not a standard for "thou shalt have this version of libc in this directory", but instead a standards body needs to come up with "this is the way you will perform your system initilzation", "this is how you will set and store your ip networking configuration" etc...this would make YOUR skills transferable from distro to distro, would allow the community to come up with BEST OF BREED solutions for things like system configuration tools etc.
Having 1000 different distros do this stuff in 1000 different ways is WORSE THAN not being able to run Oracle on a particular distro without a little tweaking.
>Now, get real: Want to know the BIGGEST, best-kept
>secret in data forensics? The most effective way to
>forever put your data beyond the reach of cops and
>courts is...
That's because most "cops" that do this sort of thing are only able to push the big red button on Norton's Utilities as their big secret tool for data recovery. Really, if it requires more skills than can be automated in some sort of recovery software with a big red button, then its going to be out of the reach of most normal police departments.
Hell, probably just using Linux formatted partitions is enought to make most cops who are alleged data forensics people give up.
But, I would imagine that once you get the feds involved things are a different story so don't get cocky.
Don't forget "Windows 2000 Datacenter Server".
t er_Server
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000_Datacen
Personally, I got more useful understanding out of this article at howstuffworks:a y.htm
http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/plasma-displ
Ok..so which building has the Stargate in it? Or which one is the home of NID?
>I have taken to using Adaware, Spybot, Spywareblaster, Hijackthis etc
Damn brother! Thats a lot of software to keep track of just to avoid a problem caused by a shitty OS.
Here is a tip that will help you take control of your life, stop spending so much time fighting such a unwinnable fight, and get more time to be with your friends and family.
Go here, throw away all that other crap and rejoice: http://www.fedora.org/
Sounds like a bunch of cloned democrats to me.
Well, that's one way for Democrats to win elections... start "cloning" people who will vote for them. They should be able to get console of at least one part of the govt in about 30years from now.
Couldn't you use a couple of say 54Mbit channels on a SAT link for backup/redunancy?