Recruiters invite you to mail them your CV without any instructions on what formats they accept, in my experience. I contacted them to ask and they didn't even understand the question.
The answer is that they all expect Doc or RTF. I tried to suggest PDF as a portable, cross-platform alternative and they hadn't even heard of it. -- Employ me! Unix,Linux,crypto/security,Perl,C/C++,distance work. Edinburgh UK.
MSNBC seem to positively delight in baiting their part-funders into trying to influence the editorial policy, with articles highly critical of both their business practices and their software and praising Linux to the skies. I think this guy is sincere. -- Employ me! Unix,Linux,crypto/security,Perl,C/C++,distance work. Edinburgh UK.
Point 3 of the summary seems to stop curiously short of saying "we won't restrict crypto export" in clear terms, the way that Point 1 says "we won't stop our citizens using crypto" in clear terms. Is that just an artifact of translation, are the Germans just paying lip service to Wassenaar, or will we see export controls going up around Germany similar to the US ones? --
Bear in mind that the Slashdot people quite often change the text of headline articles in response to corrections. It may not have read that way when Bruce posted his comment. --
Prospective employers don't like to hear that you were rude about your previous employers in public, since they worry it'll be them next. I might decide to do it anyway if my employers were serving grated baby for lunch, but not because I didn't like the way they wrote code.
I'm sure that Rasterman won't be unemployed for long anyway, but there's the tip. --
The great strength of it is that you probably don't ever need to spend the money, you just have to have it. You need to be able to say "we can fight back, so it's probably not worth your while fighting us, we will both lose a lot of money but our side will win". It's ideal for a fund.
This has been proposed many times, but as yet nothing has happened. Someone the community trusts needs to stand up and say "I'll do it", the rest of us need only make donations. --
I'm bisexual, I'm a goth, I'm a pervert, and I'm a geek. I for one have found that being ridiculed and stereotyped on one of these grounds is pretty similar to another. I certainly get more hassle for being a goth because people can tell from the street, and I get more ridicule socially for being a geek. People are surprisingly OK about my being a pervert, and bisexuality gives hardly any of the people I meet any trouble at all, though I had to leave a particularly bigoted workplace over it once. So here's one data point: her bland assertion that "geek profiling" is a breeze compared to traditional oppressions like homophobia isn't true for me. --
When you hear about "watermarking", bear in mind: like the tamper-proof smart card, it doesn't work. See Petitcolas, Anderson, Kuhn, "Attacks on Copyright Marking Systems": http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/papers/ih98-attacks / --
The article says that at the moment, the work is only getting done if it's sexy.
Is there a danger that with mechanisms like this in place, the work will be less likely to get done unless it's lucrative?
They're hoping to encourage shareware authors to go Open Source through this system. That would be really good (lots of shareware almost does a nice job but needs that Open Source polish), but of course there's a danger that shareware authors who caught by the bandwagon would have open sourced their work for free will now wait for someone to put a bounty on it and pay them to do it.
Are there other, similar dangers? Mostly I think this is a good thing, but I'm looking for the practical downsides here. --
IBM's announcement makes it pretty clear that Pacific HiTech's TurboLinux is to be their distribution of choice for the near future, meaning most likely that when IBM ship Linux boxes, that's the distribution they'll run.
Does anyone know - or can anyone guess - why IBM would choose this relatively little-known distribution over more obvious candidates like Red Hat, SuSE, or Debian? --
I'm impressed that they namechecked Stephen Tweedie's work towards a journaling ext2. sct, of course, claims that his work will produce the most stable and efficient filesystem the world has ever seen, but this work is certainly welcome while we're waiting. If it's GPLled (as I think it has to be) it may even help sct along... --
Unless you can point to the DejaNews articles verifying Mindcraft's claims to have asked for help in more than one "appropriate forum", it's hard not to conclude they're flat liars. --
Fortunately the best essays about Open Source are, not coincidentally, all under licences that offer at least unlimited redistribution already. The only possible exception I can think of is Neil Stephenson's "In The Beginning". --
If what they say on their web pages is true, they're entirely responsible and ethical people. If they really are supported by CAUCE and the CDT, it's pretty likely that they're the good guys. I'm almost tempted to sign up...but not quite. --
The philosopher Daniel C Dennett argues that many of the peculiar features of human conciousness arise because we are parallel machines trying to emulate serial ones when processing language. I guess the reason other animals don't need this part of the brain is because they only use the directly parallel solutions? --
Anyone read Mindcraft's rebuttals of the reports about them? I found them very interesting...for what they did *not* contain.
In particular, one accusation unrefuted is that Mindcraft's claims of having gone to the Linux community for help are simple lies. Any appropriate forum in which they could have looked for help is archived: a URL or two from Mindcraft showing that they looked for help would set the issue to rest. No such URL is given.
So if Mindcraft are honest they're doing a damn good job of making it look otherwise.
Just to emphasise the other key points here: (1) the hardware has already been chosen by Microsoft as that which best favours NT, and would not be chosen by someone depolying Linux. (2) Apache isn't designed to be fast at serving static HTML because static HTML servers are bandwidth-bound except during stupid unrealistic benchmarks. For such benchmarks Zeus is a better choice, also available for Linux. (3) It's very suspicious that it's the unpublished second test that we're being asked to reproduce.
We already know how these sorts of results look if a less biased organisation does them, because ZDNet did them. Linux blew NT away on every count, by every measure. --
Good sex and good conversation should do more than fulfill a social need, it should be fun. If you start to think about sex as something you do because you have to get laid from time to time, you'll be less likely to experiment and you won't get as much out of it. --
I'm amused at the reactions that say "oh no, now that JWZ has left it's all going to pot", since this integration was originally his idea. Read his "unity of interface" paper referenced on the project front page (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/chat/) before coming to judgement, people. The Mozilla crowd aren't stupid. --
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Recruiters invite you to mail them your CV without any instructions on what formats they accept, in my experience. I contacted them to ask and they didn't even understand the question.
The answer is that they all expect Doc or RTF. I tried to suggest PDF as a portable, cross-platform alternative and they hadn't even heard of it.
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Employ me! Unix,Linux,crypto/security,Perl,C/C++,distance work. Edinburgh UK.
post.office MTA seems to refer to this product:
t ml
http://www.software.com/products/impostoffice.h
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Employ me! Unix,Linux,crypto/security,Perl,C/C++,distance work. Edinburgh UK.
MSNBC seem to positively delight in baiting their part-funders into trying to influence the editorial policy, with articles highly critical of both their business practices and their software and praising Linux to the skies. I think this guy is sincere.
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Employ me! Unix,Linux,crypto/security,Perl,C/C++,distance work. Edinburgh UK.
(Score -1: Bleeding Obvious)
:-)
think of the Beowulf cluster you could build with these babies
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Employ me! Unix,Linux,crypto/security,Perl,C/C++,distance work. Edinburgh UK.
Point 3 of the summary seems to stop curiously short of saying "we won't restrict crypto export" in clear terms, the way that Point 1 says "we won't stop our citizens using crypto" in clear terms. Is that just an artifact of translation, are the Germans just paying lip service to Wassenaar, or will we see export controls going up around Germany similar to the US ones?
--
Bear in mind that the Slashdot people quite often change the text of headline articles in response to corrections. It may not have read that way when Bruce posted his comment.
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Prospective employers don't like to hear that you were rude about your previous employers in public, since they worry it'll be them next. I might decide to do it anyway if my employers were serving grated baby for lunch, but not because I didn't like the way they wrote code.
I'm sure that Rasterman won't be unemployed for long anyway, but there's the tip.
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Per, of course, has exactly the right idea.
The great strength of it is that you probably don't ever need to spend the money, you just have to have it. You need to be able to say "we can fight back, so it's probably not worth your while fighting us, we will both lose a lot of money but our side will win". It's ideal for a fund.
This has been proposed many times, but as yet nothing has happened. Someone the community trusts needs to stand up and say "I'll do it", the rest of us need only make donations.
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...needs to be present in *every* category.
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I'm bisexual, I'm a goth, I'm a pervert, and I'm a geek. I for one have found that being ridiculed and stereotyped on one of these grounds is pretty similar to another. I certainly get more hassle for being a goth because people can tell from the street, and I get more ridicule socially for being a geek. People are surprisingly OK about my being a pervert, and bisexuality gives hardly any of the people I meet any trouble at all, though I had to leave a particularly bigoted workplace over it once.
So here's one data point: her bland assertion that "geek profiling" is a breeze compared to traditional oppressions like homophobia isn't true for me.
--
When you hear about "watermarking", bear in mind: like the tamper-proof smart card, it doesn't work. See Petitcolas, Anderson, Kuhn, "Attacks on Copyright Marking Systems":s /
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~fapp2/papers/ih98-attack
--
The article says that at the moment, the work is only getting done if it's sexy.
Is there a danger that with mechanisms like this in place, the work will be less likely to get done unless it's lucrative?
They're hoping to encourage shareware authors to go Open Source through this system. That would be really good (lots of shareware almost does a nice job but needs that Open Source polish), but of course there's a danger that shareware authors who caught by the bandwagon would have open sourced their work for free will now wait for someone to put a bounty on it and pay them to do it.
Are there other, similar dangers? Mostly I think this is a good thing, but I'm looking for the practical downsides here.
--
IBM's announcement makes it pretty clear that Pacific HiTech's TurboLinux is to be their distribution of choice for the near future, meaning most likely that when IBM ship Linux boxes, that's the distribution they'll run.
Does anyone know - or can anyone guess - why IBM would choose this relatively little-known distribution over more obvious candidates like Red Hat, SuSE, or Debian?
--
I'm impressed that they namechecked Stephen Tweedie's work towards a journaling ext2. sct, of course, claims that his work will produce the most stable and efficient filesystem the world has ever seen, but this work is certainly welcome while we're waiting. If it's GPLled (as I think it has to be) it may even help sct along...
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Note who sent the story in: "chrisd", aka Chris DiBona, one of the two editors.
It used to be the case that only some of the chapters were available.
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Unless you can point to the DejaNews articles verifying Mindcraft's claims to have asked for help in more than one "appropriate forum", it's hard not to conclude they're flat liars.
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Fortunately the best essays about Open Source are, not coincidentally, all under licences that offer at least unlimited redistribution already. The only possible exception I can think of is Neil Stephenson's "In The Beginning".
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The book is online, but the copyrights are in many cases still "All Rights Reserved".
*sigh*
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If what they say on their web pages is true, they're entirely responsible and ethical people.
If they really are supported by CAUCE and the CDT, it's pretty likely that they're the good guys. I'm almost tempted to sign up...but not quite.
--
The philosopher Daniel C Dennett argues that many of the peculiar features of human conciousness arise because we are parallel machines trying to emulate serial ones when processing language. I guess the reason other animals don't need this part of the brain is because they only use the directly parallel solutions?
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I for one recommend this article. I'm surprised to see such clear thought from someone who thinks well of people like Hayek and Rand...
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Anyone read Mindcraft's rebuttals of the reports about them? I found them very interesting...for what they did *not* contain.
In particular, one accusation unrefuted is that Mindcraft's claims of having gone to the Linux community for help are simple lies. Any appropriate forum in which they could have looked for help is archived: a URL or two from Mindcraft showing that they looked for help would set the issue to rest. No such URL is given.
So if Mindcraft are honest they're doing a damn good job of making it look otherwise.
Just to emphasise the other key points here: (1) the hardware has already been chosen by Microsoft as that which best favours NT, and would not be chosen by someone depolying Linux. (2) Apache isn't designed to be fast at serving static HTML because static HTML servers are bandwidth-bound except during stupid unrealistic benchmarks. For such benchmarks Zeus is a better choice, also available for Linux. (3) It's very suspicious that it's the unpublished second test that we're being asked to reproduce.
We already know how these sorts of results look if a less biased organisation does them, because ZDNet did them. Linux blew NT away on every count, by every measure.
--
Good sex and good conversation should do more than fulfill a social need, it should be fun. If you start to think about sex as something you do because you have to get laid from time to time, you'll be less likely to experiment and you won't get as much out of it.
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Actually, there are two ways to read it:
a) he's dumb;
b) he's smart, but making a point to a dumb readership in a simple way.
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I'm amused at the reactions that say "oh no, now that JWZ has left it's all going to pot", since this integration was originally his idea. Read his "unity of interface" paper referenced on the project front page (http://www.mozilla.org/projects/chat/) before coming to judgement, people. The Mozilla crowd aren't stupid.
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