Step Five: Get a real job, or loosen up the old purse strings and pony up a couple of dollars to buy a NEW computer? C'mon, minimal systems that will blow away the hardware you must have can be had for the $200 range...heck, I hear some of them at Wallyworld Mart come WITH linux pre-installed. For a few more dollars, I saw one at Dell for $349.
You fail miserably. There are places outside your world where people get $349 *a month* for a living. And they must maintain a complete family (in fact, the average income of people in Mexico is about 515 and $2000 a year.
There are lots of these people who can not buy a new computer, and are still happily using their 486 or even 386 with windows 95 and 98. And some of them using dial up internet connections!
Haha, it is sad that I thought the same after looking at it. The enclosing pictures are placeholders for images that are to be loaded, The "broken" image have the same icon but with a scratch or an X like these.
It never ceases to amaze me how Apple fanboys are willing to blame everyone but Apple when Apple fucks up something. But oh no, Apple 'just works', and when they 'just stop working', it's always the user's or someone else's fault.
Ah, it is okay for me. As with that attitude they only show that apple users are *stupid*. See, according to their POV, if OSX stops working then it is the user fault, if some files disappear without trace after moving other files then it is the user who is stupid, if an installed application damages the system then the user is stupid. Hey, OSX users should be really really stupid... I mean, because we know the operating system is *perfect*, so, all the issues that happen are because of the stupid users.
6. What would you do if you get pulled into your division VP's office and asked to reduce your workforce by one warm body every 90 days over a 9-month period? Laying off employees, many of which used to be your own coworkers, is extremely hard.
Thats quite true. My girlfriend is a warehouse manager for a known clothing company, she started about one year ago and it seems she has been quite good at it. About a month ago they called the managers from several departments (it is a manufacturing facility) and toll them that they will start a "Cost Reduction" plan in the facility and that there was going to be a consulter who will help them in the "cost reduction" works. Of course, that immediately meant laying off several people, including some which were in my girlfriend's department. Fortunately it seems they decided to avoid the "cost reduction" plans for now.
As a manager *you* are the one that has to make the hard decisions, and of course you are the one who gets to blame when things go wrong (even if it is out of your control like some merchandise trailer missing because the driver did not know how to get to the factory and he did not have mobile to communicate). That is one of the reasons why as a simple work pawn you see you manager yelling agree at you and your coworkers. It is because of the pressure they are putting to him which, believe me you can not compare against the pressure the guy puts on you.
sorry, but I NEED MY GUI, I dont know of one person using WoW without a GUI, if you find one, send him my email, I want to know how he does it, and btw my WoW presence blankets, your *nix presence anyday.
It is called MUD you whippersnapper, and get out of my lawn!
Just configure an *inernal* phpBB (and secure it FTLOG!!) forum and make people post there. If you have long conversation threads then it might be good to have them in a forum instead of clogging the mail (and that way you can prevent mail leaks.
Yes training a child a birth to use a command line is no promise they will grow up using it... Especially growing up and realizing the GUI have some major advantages over command lines for Many uses....
The problem with GUIs is that they are not practical, at least not the ones that are created. I just have had to calculate about 500 Shapiro-Wilk statistics and p-values using R (statistical analysis package), I use Rkward GUI because it make things a whole lot easier, however, it would be plainly stupid to try to calculate all those values (from series with about 1000 samples) by importing, and selecting the statistics via a menu, it would have taken hours.
Instead, a simple Bash script using awk, sed, grep and a custom prgoram to run R scripts allowed me to make it automatically *and* to format the results in a way I liked.
GUIs are *easy* to use, but they are very impractical. It would be a nice argument to prove if all of them are like that or if it is only that GUIs are usually made that way (i.e., the irfanView batch converting is really good! and easy compared to some linux command line equivalents... and there is no Linux GUI equivalent of that).
Right now Northern Rock shares are only for those with brass balls so big they need a wheelbarrow to carry them around in.
Or for speculators. If the share are at 88p each one it means they can not go down further, it would be clever then to buy and maybe hedge whatever risk (how much will you lose if you buy 200 shares?) in another investment (some Option or whatnot).
Take a look at a sample of the data:
0.83 Is Slashdot actually a website? 0.77 Does slashdot postings cause extra traffic for its mentioned websites? 0.76 Is Slashdot a web site? (this one seems to vary a bit) 0.39 Is slashdot.org good? 0.35 Is the website at slashdot.org full of trolls and mindless linux bigots? 0.30 Was mindpixel slashdotted? 0.13 Is Slashdot the greatest site ever? 0.05 Has the average person (e.g. your Mother) ever heard of Slashdot? 0.00 is slashdot good journalism? There was a slashvertisement of the GAC some years ago.
You know what pisses me off?, that right now, people are starting to consider "being green" as another label for people that does not agree with whatever are the mainstream ideas. In my opinion, it is similar to "socialism" or "communism". It is not that any of those are bad, it is that, the way they have been implemented has been atrocious. Now, when someone makes something to help nature, they just label him as "being green" and take him as a weirdo and that. Similarly to the way when the government says "communism" or "socialism" everybody runs scared. They are just concepts, and some of their ideas are good.
Talking specifically about living in sustainable conditions, people just don't care anymore... when I was living in Mexico city (for about 5 months) one day I stopped to think when was the last time I had *touched* a tree. And really, when has been the last time people have interacted with the nature? a lot of people do not do it. They see it as "the nature", those bunch of trees that are outside the city. What they do not seem to understand is that it is *the city* what is inside nature and when we destroy it, our beloved techno-ecosystem is coming down, believe it or not.
Why on earth would you need to access your machine to get your data? Are you actually storing important data on the desktop? You really, really need to look into File Redirection in GPO's.
Agree, at my University, the sysadmins provide you with about 3 GB of data in a "M" drive (although for us using linux is your ~ directory). You can access such drive via SSH. There is no reason to leave computers on all the time, unfortunately, Linux hibernation and suspend to memory does not work very well and I have lost hibernation sessions of work quite some times.
The SSH account + FUSE is the way to go for me. You can work from anywhere. That is something that Linux can do that I haven't been able to replicate in Windows (SSHFS)
I honestly can't imagine what it would be like to have a job where if what's immediately in front of me is blocked, then I am blocked from working. I battle to keep my workweek hour-count at something reasonable, and have never once lacked for (way too much) to do. Tool isn't working? No worries, I've got a huge list of things to do using other tools. Hardware problem? I've got an extra box. Power failure in my wing? Sounds good: Ive got loads of people I need to meet with to hash out problems and sync up with. Fire alarm goes off in the building? I'll hang out in the parking lot with my coworkers and have some impromptu talks on things I'm working on (thank god this happens less often now that we have heat sensing, instead of smoke sensing, fire alarms).
Ha! no downtime? try doing a PhD and you will find plenty of "downtime". I learnt the meaning of the word "procrastinate" in the middle of my PhD. It was fine because that way I could refute when someone said "but you do not know what you are doing!". I also remember that some other PhD students (here in the UK) did not know the meaning of procrastinate. Of course, I learnt it in PhD Comics...
Howly cow, I think some of the mods need a new sense of humour. Why did they moded parent as flamebait? it was one of the first thing it though (PPP: paper, pencil and patience, lots of them).
However, I did not understood the little gray cell thing... care to clarify??
Ah yeah, I thought so.... but still, something is something, and if Microsoft is opening some file format then it is cool.
One of the things that I often have in my head is that, I believe that if *every* data representation protocol (thats file types, communication protocols and others) used by every hardware and software, we would be able to do really marvelous things. It is only about the interaction about devices. However, companies like Sony, Apple and Microsoft insist on closing their protocols in order to make you buy their "solutions".
That's one of the reasons why I buy Samsung (sorry for the ad.. no, I dont work for samsung). They seem very Open for a device company. Unfortunately they are not open enough to provide for example the source code of the firmware for some of their MP3 players... I mean, what could they lose if they did that? what could *any* company lose if they gave the source code (even if it was assembler) of their devices!
Try opening a word file in the plain text editor of your choice. There's actually a lot of plain text in there, it seems the binary is mostly from formatting (and embedded binary objects - like images).
Not only that but they also have sounds. Yes *sounds*, if you don't believe me just try displaying your file using the TYPE command. Someone told me that if you listen to the sounds generated by a.DOC file backwards, you will hear demonic messages.
Hey, you forgot to read the following part of my comment: Now, I know there is a super-duper easy way to bind them in X/Y/Z menu or...
it is just before the "certain.conf file" part.
Either, it is that Linux does not recognize my keyboard properly or that KDE failed to bind the keys. However, it happens with all keyboards i have tested so far..
3. Somebody has the same phone number of 10 years.
My mom's house (the house were I lived for about 14 years) still has the same phone number 68972 after almost 20 years. I do not thing it is that amazing to have the same telephone number for all that time (or maybe it is in the USA...)
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Question: Does your mom effectively use MS Access now?
The answer is Yes. But of course the answer depends on what you mean by "effectively". My mom uses access effectively for her needs. She can start a database with one of the wizards and then modify it a bit using the GUI. She has a *very very* small knowledge of keys and tables and overal database structure (which I taught her). Overall, she knows whatever is necessary to know to acomplish her tasks.
The idea of a GUI is to make it easy and intuitive to execute certain tasks. Access does that quite well, even if the.MDB file format is not very good, it is good enough (something for what Microsoft is characterized). However there is no other GUI good enough for users such as my mom (unless you count Excel)
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I don't understand. The last time I read news about MySQL on slashdot the guys were trying to go public. The CEO was even commenting in the/. story and all that. What happened to the IPO? did it happen?
Also, it would be nice for the MySQL guys to comment in this story as well. Of course now that they are pwnd by a corporation, I guess they got NDA-ed to their sitting-cushions.
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If you're referring to the executable, than maybe "perl language" doesn't merit any objections, aside from the fact that it's a tortured construct.
... ;-)
Two pedants walk into a bar
It is THEN, as in THEN MAYBE. I hope English is not your first language, because even though it is not mine, that sort of error is very annoying.
Step Five: Get a real job, or loosen up the old purse strings and pony up a couple of dollars to buy a NEW computer? C'mon, minimal systems that will blow away the hardware you must have can be had for the $200 range...heck, I hear some of them at Wallyworld Mart come WITH linux pre-installed. For a few more dollars, I saw one at Dell for $349.
You fail miserably. There are places outside your world where people get $349 *a month* for a living. And they must maintain a complete family (in fact, the average income of people in Mexico is about 515 and $2000 a year.
There are lots of these people who can not buy a new computer, and are still happily using their 486 or even 386 with windows 95 and 98. And some of them using dial up internet connections!
Haha, it is sad that I thought the same after looking at it. The enclosing pictures are placeholders for images that are to be loaded, The "broken" image have the same icon but with a scratch or an X like these.
It never ceases to amaze me how Apple fanboys are willing to blame everyone but Apple when Apple fucks up something. But oh no, Apple 'just works', and when they 'just stop working', it's always the user's or someone else's fault.
Ah, it is okay for me. As with that attitude they only show that apple users are *stupid*. See, according to their POV, if OSX stops working then it is the user fault, if some files disappear without trace after moving other files then it is the user who is stupid, if an installed application damages the system then the user is stupid. Hey, OSX users should be really really stupid... I mean, because we know the operating system is *perfect*, so, all the issues that happen are because of the stupid users.
2Wire DSL routers to point the user's Web browser to a fraudulent bank site that mimics the site of one of the largest Mexican banks.
There is not much space to guess here, it is either Banamex or Bancomer...
6. What would you do if you get pulled into your division VP's office and asked to reduce your workforce by one warm body every 90 days over a 9-month period? Laying off employees, many of which used to be your own coworkers, is extremely hard.
Thats quite true. My girlfriend is a warehouse manager for a known clothing company, she started about one year ago and it seems she has been quite good at it. About a month ago they called the managers from several departments (it is a manufacturing facility) and toll them that they will start a "Cost Reduction" plan in the facility and that there was going to be a consulter who will help them in the "cost reduction" works. Of course, that immediately meant laying off several people, including some which were in my girlfriend's department. Fortunately it seems they decided to avoid the "cost reduction" plans for now.
As a manager *you* are the one that has to make the hard decisions, and of course you are the one who gets to blame when things go wrong (even if it is out of your control like some merchandise trailer missing because the driver did not know how to get to the factory and he did not have mobile to communicate). That is one of the reasons why as a simple work pawn you see you manager yelling agree at you and your coworkers. It is because of the pressure they are putting to him which, believe me you can not compare against the pressure the guy puts on you.
sorry, but I NEED MY GUI, I dont know of one person using WoW without a GUI, if you find one, send him my email, I want to know how he does it, and btw my WoW presence blankets, your *nix presence anyday.
It is called MUD you whippersnapper, and get out of my lawn!
Just configure an *inernal* phpBB (and secure it FTLOG!!) forum and make people post there. If you have long conversation threads then it might be good to have them in a forum instead of clogging the mail (and that way you can prevent mail leaks.
Most open source licenses (hi BSD guys) require contributing your own work back to the collective good.
You mean most of them like GPL and...
or the ones that does NOT require you to contribute anything back like BSD, MIT, APL, E(clipse)PL, PHP license, lGPL, etc.
Yes training a child a birth to use a command line is no promise they will grow up using it... Especially growing up and realizing the GUI have some major advantages over command lines for Many uses....
The problem with GUIs is that they are not practical, at least not the ones that are created. I just have had to calculate about 500 Shapiro-Wilk statistics and p-values using R (statistical analysis package), I use Rkward GUI because it make things a whole lot easier, however, it would be plainly stupid to try to calculate all those values (from series with about 1000 samples) by importing, and selecting the statistics via a menu, it would have taken hours.
Instead, a simple Bash script using awk, sed, grep and a custom prgoram to run R scripts allowed me to make it automatically *and* to format the results in a way I liked.
GUIs are *easy* to use, but they are very impractical. It would be a nice argument to prove if all of them are like that or if it is only that GUIs are usually made that way (i.e., the irfanView batch converting is really good! and easy compared to some linux command line equivalents... and there is no Linux GUI equivalent of that).
Right now Northern Rock shares are only for those with brass balls so big they need a wheelbarrow to carry them around in.
Or for speculators. If the share are at 88p each one it means they can not go down further, it would be clever then to buy and maybe hedge whatever risk (how much will you lose if you buy 200 shares?) in another investment (some Option or whatnot).
0.77 Does slashdot postings cause extra traffic for its mentioned websites?
0.76 Is Slashdot a web site? (this one seems to vary a bit)
0.39 Is slashdot.org good?
0.35 Is the website at slashdot.org full of trolls and mindless linux bigots?
0.30 Was mindpixel slashdotted?
0.13 Is Slashdot the greatest site ever?
0.05 Has the average person (e.g. your Mother) ever heard of Slashdot?
0.00 is slashdot good journalism? There was a slashvertisement of the GAC some years ago.
You know what pisses me off?, that right now, people are starting to consider "being green" as another label for people that does not agree with whatever are the mainstream ideas. In my opinion, it is similar to "socialism" or "communism". It is not that any of those are bad, it is that, the way they have been implemented has been atrocious. Now, when someone makes something to help nature, they just label him as "being green" and take him as a weirdo and that. Similarly to the way when the government says "communism" or "socialism" everybody runs scared. They are just concepts, and some of their ideas are good.
Talking specifically about living in sustainable conditions, people just don't care anymore... when I was living in Mexico city (for about 5 months) one day I stopped to think when was the last time I had *touched* a tree. And really, when has been the last time people have interacted with the nature? a lot of people do not do it. They see it as "the nature", those bunch of trees that are outside the city. What they do not seem to understand is that it is *the city* what is inside nature and when we destroy it, our beloved techno-ecosystem is coming down, believe it or not.
Why on earth would you need to access your machine to get your data? Are you actually storing important data on the desktop? You really, really need to look into File Redirection in GPO's.
Agree, at my University, the sysadmins provide you with about 3 GB of data in a "M" drive (although for us using linux is your ~ directory). You can access such drive via SSH. There is no reason to leave computers on all the time, unfortunately, Linux hibernation and suspend to memory does not work very well and I have lost hibernation sessions of work quite some times.
The SSH account + FUSE is the way to go for me. You can work from anywhere. That is something that Linux can do that I haven't been able to replicate in Windows (SSHFS)
No need to be overly pedantic.
Hey this is slashdot... pedantry is the base of most of the discussions here...
you must be new here uh?
I honestly can't imagine what it would be like to have a job where if what's immediately in front of me is blocked, then I am blocked from working. I battle to keep my workweek hour-count at something reasonable, and have never once lacked for (way too much) to do. Tool isn't working? No worries, I've got a huge list of things to do using other tools. Hardware problem? I've got an extra box. Power failure in my wing? Sounds good: Ive got loads of people I need to meet with to hash out problems and sync up with. Fire alarm goes off in the building? I'll hang out in the parking lot with my coworkers and have some impromptu talks on things I'm working on (thank god this happens less often now that we have heat sensing, instead of smoke sensing, fire alarms).
Ha! no downtime? try doing a PhD and you will find plenty of "downtime". I learnt the meaning of the word "procrastinate" in the middle of my PhD. It was fine because that way I could refute when someone said "but you do not know what you are doing!". I also remember that some other PhD students (here in the UK) did not know the meaning of procrastinate. Of course, I learnt it in PhD Comics...
Howly cow, I think some of the mods need a new sense of humour. Why did they moded parent as flamebait? it was one of the first thing it though (PPP: paper, pencil and patience, lots of them).
However, I did not understood the little gray cell thing... care to clarify??
Scary stuff. We stayed clear of our room that day. :) Check out the photos.
Someone is losing a bit of hair ain't it?
Are those licenses less restrictive than BSD?
Ah yeah, I thought so.... but still, something is something, and if Microsoft is opening some file format then it is cool.
One of the things that I often have in my head is that, I believe that if *every* data representation protocol (thats file types, communication protocols and others) used by every hardware and software, we would be able to do really marvelous things. It is only about the interaction about devices. However, companies like Sony, Apple and Microsoft insist on closing their protocols in order to make you buy their "solutions".
That's one of the reasons why I buy Samsung (sorry for the ad.. no, I dont work for samsung). They seem very Open for a device company. Unfortunately they are not open enough to provide for example the source code of the firmware for some of their MP3 players... I mean, what could they lose if they did that? what could *any* company lose if they gave the source code (even if it was assembler) of their devices!
Try opening a word file in the plain text editor of your choice. There's actually a lot of plain text in there, it seems the binary is mostly from formatting (and embedded binary objects - like images).
.DOC file backwards, you will hear demonic messages.
Not only that but they also have sounds. Yes *sounds*, if you don't believe me just try displaying your file using the TYPE command. Someone told me that if you listen to the sounds generated by a
SUNSHINE!
Hey, you forgot to read the following part of my comment: ... .conf file" part.
..
Now, I know there is a super-duper easy way to bind them in X/Y/Z menu or
it is just before the "certain
Either, it is that Linux does not recognize my keyboard properly or that KDE failed to bind the keys. However, it happens with all keyboards i have tested so far
3. Somebody has the same phone number of 10 years.
My mom's house (the house were I lived for about 14 years) still has the same phone number 68972 after almost 20 years. I do not thing it is that amazing to have the same telephone number for all that time (or maybe it is in the USA...)
Question: Does your mom effectively use MS Access now?
.MDB file format is not very good, it is good enough (something for what Microsoft is characterized). However there is no other GUI good enough for users such as my mom (unless you count Excel)
The answer is Yes. But of course the answer depends on what you mean by "effectively". My mom uses access effectively for her needs. She can start a database with one of the wizards and then modify it a bit using the GUI. She has a *very very* small knowledge of keys and tables and overal database structure (which I taught her). Overall, she knows whatever is necessary to know to acomplish her tasks.
The idea of a GUI is to make it easy and intuitive to execute certain tasks. Access does that quite well, even if the
I don't understand. The last time I read news about MySQL on slashdot the guys were trying to go public. The CEO was even commenting in the /. story and all that. What happened to the IPO? did it happen?
Also, it would be nice for the MySQL guys to comment in this story as well. Of course now that they are pwnd by a corporation, I guess they got NDA-ed to their sitting-cushions.