- Don't have much friends, don't do much development, don't participate in mailing lists.
- Change your employers pretty often.
- Don't have any real means for people from outside of your world to contact you.
- Abuse Hotmail, completely screwing their statistics about the millions of users they've got;)
Of course, your approach may work for someone, but it certainly is not an ultimate solution for everyone. There are people who need to be available (ESR?:)
I support the idea of having different purpose e-mail addresses. Additionally, I want to remind everyone about the nice things like exim filters, procmail and perl.
Considering the progress of the last 50 years, I would say that this article is _extremely_ accurate.
I would say that the last 50 years were the most progressive within the human history. It took thousands of years between the invention of fire and the next invention (wheel). It took hundreds of years between the wheel and next invention (computer). It is 50 years later we are standing now, and look at where we are! It is also that the article covers a lot of areas. Try doing something like that for a single area for the next 20 years, and I will read and laugh (j/k).
Another thing is, the article does not like a huge scientific paper with years of research. It is a simple, few pages article meant for entertaining.
The author should be well informed about progress of different sciences, which appears to be an issue back there without Internet:)
I enjoyed the whole piece. "Frozen dinners" and microwave - hit. Air transport speed - hit. Power - hit. Light metal - hit. Machinery - hit. Television/Internet/video conferencing - hit (he just uses a different name for the same concept).
Diet - hit (a great one, assuming the lack of knowledge in 50s as mentioned in the article). Megapolice-kind of cities - hit (though, I guess it was a bit obvious). Cancer - hit (If I would be back in 50s, I would say that cancer will be cured in 2000).
He screwed up with house cleaning (male, scientist - what do you want?), prices (that's a difficult thing to predict anyway), some places about medical care and vacuum tubes/punch cards (but does anyone remember getting the 386 processor? that was a monster).
RedHat is one of those few (if not to say the only), who has certification program. On one hand, I don't see much of the advertising of RedHat certification on the net, while on the other hand, it is possible to receive RHCE even here in Cyprus (from NetU).
What are RedHat plans/strategies on promoting RedHat Linux Certification?
Is there any interest in this certification program from resellers,corporations,IT proffessionals and/or anyone else?
Since my main task is supporting, the product I release, I will try to make my job as fun as possible. So, I will try to kill most bugs and stupid options in my product, and adding some nice features, which are a challange to support:)
If I charge about 100 USD for a piece of software I wrote, then, I most probably don't want to here about it when it hits the customer. I've got my money as software vendor. Support? Who cares about support?;)
If, on the other hand, support (and similar services) is the only thing that can keep me alive, then I will be pretty sure I do my job right:)
Having this in mind, I would really prefer to go to RedHat Inc. for support instead of Microsoft.
I would recommend Rebel Code. This will give you a good piece of Open Source history, Linux, Free Software Foundation, GNU, etc. Very nice piece of writing.
...and don't forget to put on-line your course notes, when you are done:)
How much money would you spend, if needed to backup something like 60GBs? Well, and now compare it with one DLT tape which holds up to 70GBs (in my case)... and it is not that slow;)
First there was a keyboard. The one who were quicker killed everyone else in DOOM;)
Then there was a mouse. Those who could use both
at the same time killed everyone who couldn't in
QUAKE;)
Now there will be voice. Those who will be using
all three at the same time, will be kicking angels
in any butt-kicking game.
When VR will be integrated on a lower level, same
people will be kicking everywhere, using same
commands for shooting in Quake, Doom, Half-life,etc, because (guess what?) they will not
have to./configure for every separate game;)
170 words per minute is defenetely a rare typing,
but it is possible. Take the manual for an old
typewriter - it can handle a maimum of 12 characters per second. Then came the electrical
typewriter - that's a bit more... You keyboard is
most probably cannot handle more then 15 chars
per sec, but there are special keyboards for the
fast-typers. And there is DVORAK;)...and then it starts again...
On the other hand, let's see a couple of examples:
Sysadmin installes and configures the server. Most of the things are on the destribution CD. Configs are backed up pretty well from the very beginning - they are in the head of this particular sysadmin, in his mail box on the other machine, in the manual, and pretty soon they will be used on the other machine most probably;)
In case of a crash, it is easier to reinstall the system, then find the appropriate backup on the tape or CD, or even floppy;)
As another example, take a programmer...gee, his code is everywhere, it is on the file server, at home, in the mail box, on sourceforge.net, etc... his head does not count though;)
And for the last example, let's say a webdesigner...no matter what you tell him/her, you may be sure to find copies of the work at home, on that million of floppies at his/her desk, also saved somewhere at geocities.com and of course printed out and glued to the wall of fame;)
Here comes the difficult part - lawers, accountants, sercretaries, and the like, in other words, not computer world people. Well, that's a difficult life for them now, cause most of them are afraid of computers, and are bad typists. Well, consider now a geek-without-driving-experience ruling Porsche 911...Do you think a fastened setbelt will help him? If yes, then do you still think that he will not disturb anyone with his driving in the city?;)
We all have to learn, and as driving-learning-curve does not start from a setbelt, but from a general theory and brakes pedal, the same way computer users should start from theory and not pressing the "OK" button when they don't know what the heck is going to happen after that...
Sorry for a longy post, but I remember that I wanted to say something else, though it's 3am here and I most probably lost my mind once again:)
It is _very_ important _not_ to have a backup for myself;) You may wonder why...hehe, that's easy:
If I did backups all my life I would need a 100TB SCSI drive by now... It is very difficult to say what is really important and what is not. Loosing data makes answering this question easier. Data which is really important is always backed up somewhere on another host or something. You know where to find things that are important for you, at least you have found them once already;)
On the other hand there are "temporarely important" things, which you save you forget about them when they are not important anymore. If you try to manage all these data, you will lose too much time, and at the end of the day, you will have the same situation as before.
Don't lose you time trying systematically backup important data - let the disk crash do it for you.
Don't forget that if you are not interested in miles of forest and billions of mosquitos, then you better get to civilization,which is a bit more to the west.
Just to give you a figure, a train trip from Sahalin to Moscow area is about 14 days. If you want to get to Europe, like Spain for example, you will need something like a month...on a train... you will shoot yourself;) Not to mention quality of services, no Internet... you better be sure you can handle it;)
one cannot repeat this experiment in Cyprus;)
No matter who your sponsors are...
Noone has a website, noone knows what Internet is, noone wants to work, noone delivers pizza, while it is warm at least;)...and Internet costs a lot of money still... for a slow connection... which does not give you a chance of watching TV or listening to radio yet...;)
If you have any chance not to come here - use it:)
I guess, people who post here about millenium beginning this year try to get moderator' interest on the reason why the count this way;), so that he/she atleast give them "Interesting", which will greatly improve the karma which didn't go up since the beginning of millenium last year;)
I would really disagree with you on php making perl obsolete;)
First of all perl is much older then php and is by far better tested and supported. The minimum php has to do is to port/support most of the CPAN (http://www.cpan.org) modules, which really help to provide fast and easy application development.
Secondly, why should one learn two different languages to do two different things?;) Take for a example, standalone (data/system-maintainence scripts) and a web application. Why should I do web part in php and, say, db-to-files-dumping-from-cron in perl? Why should not I use perl for both? You may say that one can use php for those "standalone" scripts, but how convinient that is?
Thirdly, I have not seen any particular advantage of php that is not present in perl. Niether did I see anything which is easier in php. But that is subjective imho;)
Perl is also easily run in both CGI mode and HTML embedded (http://perl.apache.org). Perl is installed on lot's of systems and it comes with the distributions of most UNIXes. There is even a popular perl interpreter for Windows (http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/).
Anyway, php has no chances to make perl obsolete, since perl has million of other appliences except the web. And even to make perl obsolete for web development, php has a long road to go, though I am following the development a bit, and I like just having another alternative in the future;)
Just let me paraphrase your saying and you will see yourself the lack of information that you give:
"Hello, we have heard that you know something about doing everything out of nothing. Me and my friends have developed something, which is actually nothing, and we would like to get at least anything in return. So, could you please help me with something to do anything not to get nothing out of it. TIA";)
What have you developed? Is it a Beer-glass-and-coffee-mug-in-one magic driver for anything-that-has-anytype-connector? Or maybe it is a publishing-which-is-a-simple-writing-for-documenti ng-puposes-piece-of-software in 10 lines? How many analogies of that "something" are there around? How many friends were their developing it? Etc..;)
I am still wondering why do people run behind new/high/top/super-puper techs like P4... It is expensive, buggy (actually it is not known for sure whether it is buggy or not;)), it is poorely scalable, etc...
Instead, one could go the google way - take as many old computers as you need (486 or something), and use their beauty. Cheap, reliable when plenty, and even more interesting conecptually (networks, clusters, distributed systems, etc).
The drawbacks of course are obvious: space, noise and electricity charges. But if you take a closer look, it becomes even more interesting:
- space and noise (and heat/speed) can be fixed by something like "computer in the fridge", which I am sure everyone read about...
- electricity charges are not that high considering the number of monitors;) which is actually one per cluster/network or less.
As I have read somewhere not long ago, Google has now more then 6K Linux servers, with the most powerful one being a P133 or something... That is interesting;)
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Well, actually there is a kind of attempt in RPM to save something. Ocasionally, the configuration files are backed up into filename.rpmsave, though I have not found any trend so far...
...sometimes it works, sometimes it does not...that's life;)
I'd say CS, but where? ;)
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Well, I am almost finished with my CS bachelor. I am working at the same time, and I have seen some people from MIS (that's the way we call it), plus, of course I've seen them in the college.
CS is a computer science, MIS is a mixture of CS and business. I guess MIS should be those people-translators between businessmen and programmers/geek-likes;)
Math, I guess, are problematic for everyone, though not as impossible to pass as accounting, management, and the like;) CS, on the other hand, will give you a better base and concept knowledge.
The question that I think you should ask yourself is not whether you should take CS or MIS (CS of course), but where to do it. I've almost done the whole thing in the college, and I think it sux. So, I wonder, whether it could have been better if I did it in the university.
P.S.: you will not find an answer to your question here;-)
I think there are two things that are important for a good UI: 1. Flexibility (I want it to look as I want it to look). 2. Defaults (great help for newbies, and a good time saver for others).
Additionally: Speed is of course the issue aswell, but in most cases it is managable with a better hardware;-P The capabilities of both mouse and keyboard usage should be considered as important too.
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From what you said, it looks like you:
;)
:)
:)
- Don't have much friends, don't do much development, don't participate in mailing lists.
- Change your employers pretty often.
- Don't have any real means for people from outside of your world to contact you.
- Abuse Hotmail, completely screwing their statistics about the millions of users they've got
Of course, your approach may work for someone, but it certainly is not an ultimate solution for everyone. There are people who need to be available (ESR?
I support the idea of having different purpose e-mail addresses. Additionally, I want to remind everyone about the nice things like exim filters, procmail and perl.
Happy filtering
Considering the progress of the last 50 years, I would say that this article is _extremely_ accurate.
:)
I would say that the last 50 years were the most progressive within the human history. It took thousands of years between the invention of fire and the next invention (wheel). It took hundreds of years between the wheel and next invention (computer). It is 50 years later we are standing now, and look at where we are! It is also that the article covers a lot of areas. Try doing something like that for a single area for the next 20 years, and I will read and laugh (j/k).
Another thing is, the article does not like a huge scientific paper with years of research. It is a simple, few pages article meant for entertaining.
The author should be well informed about progress of different sciences, which appears to be an issue back there without Internet
I enjoyed the whole piece. "Frozen dinners" and microwave - hit. Air transport speed - hit. Power - hit. Light metal - hit. Machinery - hit. Television/Internet/video conferencing - hit (he just uses a different name for the same concept).
Diet - hit (a great one, assuming the lack of knowledge in 50s as mentioned in the article). Megapolice-kind of cities - hit (though, I guess it was a bit obvious). Cancer - hit (If I would be back in 50s, I would say that cancer will be cured in 2000).
He screwed up with house cleaning (male, scientist - what do you want?), prices (that's a difficult thing to predict anyway), some places about medical care and vacuum tubes/punch cards (but does anyone remember getting the 386 processor? that was a monster).
Anyway, bravo and aplauds go to the author.
People only learn about usefullness of it when it is too late. On the other hand, backuping up is never late, since there is always the "nex time".
1. Most of the things military ever shows to the public are old and soon-to-be-out-of-production. New technologies are classified.
;-)
2. In the history of the last few hundred years, did _ANYONE_ ever intruded the borders of USA? I mean sereosly. And I know about Pearl Harbor
RedHat is one of those few (if not to say the only), who has certification program. On one hand, I don't see much of the advertising of RedHat certification on the net, while on the other hand, it is possible to receive RHCE even here in Cyprus (from NetU).
What are RedHat plans/strategies on promoting RedHat Linux Certification?
Is there any interest in this certification program from resellers,corporations,IT proffessionals and/or anyone else?
Since my main task is supporting, the product I release, I will try to make my job as fun as possible. So, I will try to kill most bugs and stupid options in my product, and adding some nice features, which are a challange to support :)
Well, let me say this one...
;)
:)
If I charge about 100 USD for a piece of software I wrote, then, I most probably don't want to here about it when it hits the customer. I've got my money as software vendor. Support? Who cares about support?
If, on the other hand, support (and similar services) is the only thing that can keep me alive, then I will be pretty sure I do my job right
Having this in mind, I would really prefer to go to RedHat Inc. for support instead of Microsoft.
for "sissies" you say :)
:)
;)
"hard drive" you say
How much money would you spend, if needed to backup something like 60GBs? Well, and now compare it with one DLT tape which holds up to 70GBs (in my case)... and it is not that slow
On some systems symlinks maybe of some help :)
First there was a keyboard. The one who were quicker killed everyone else in DOOM ;)
;)
./configure for every separate game ;)
Then there was a mouse. Those who could use both
at the same time killed everyone who couldn't in
QUAKE
Now there will be voice. Those who will be using
all three at the same time, will be kicking angels
in any butt-kicking game.
When VR will be integrated on a lower level, same
people will be kicking everywhere, using same
commands for shooting in Quake, Doom, Half-life,etc, because (guess what?) they will not
have to
170 words per minute is defenetely a rare typing, ;) ...and then it starts again...
but it is possible. Take the manual for an old
typewriter - it can handle a maimum of 12 characters per second. Then came the electrical
typewriter - that's a bit more... You keyboard is
most probably cannot handle more then 15 chars
per sec, but there are special keyboards for the
fast-typers. And there is DVORAK
well, it appears from the screenshot that Whistler cannot detect the processor correctly. From what I've seen, it shows 0MHz :) Cool...
Well, you have a point ;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
;)
:)
On the other hand, let's see a couple of examples:
Sysadmin installes and configures the server. Most of the things are on the destribution CD. Configs are backed up pretty well from the very beginning - they are in the head of this particular sysadmin, in his mail box on the other machine, in the manual, and pretty soon they will be used on the other machine most probably
In case of a crash, it is easier to reinstall the system, then find the appropriate backup on the tape or CD, or even floppy
As another example, take a programmer...gee, his code is everywhere, it is on the file server, at home, in the mail box, on sourceforge.net, etc... his head does not count though
And for the last example, let's say a webdesigner...no matter what you tell him/her, you may be sure to find copies of the work at home, on that million of floppies at his/her desk, also saved somewhere at geocities.com and of course printed out and glued to the wall of fame
Here comes the difficult part - lawers, accountants, sercretaries, and the like, in other words, not computer world people. Well, that's a difficult life for them now, cause most of them are afraid of computers, and are bad typists. Well, consider now a geek-without-driving-experience ruling Porsche 911...Do you think a fastened setbelt will help him? If yes, then do you still think that he will not disturb anyone with his driving in the city?
We all have to learn, and as driving-learning-curve does not start from a setbelt, but from a general theory and brakes pedal, the same way computer users should start from theory and not pressing the "OK" button when they don't know what the heck is going to happen after that...
Sorry for a longy post, but I remember that I wanted to say something else, though it's 3am here and I most probably lost my mind once again
It is _very_ important _not_ to have a backup for myself ;) You may wonder why...hehe, that's easy:
;)
;)
If I did backups all my life I would need a 100TB SCSI drive by now... It is very difficult to say what is really important and what is not. Loosing data makes answering this question easier. Data which is really important is always backed up somewhere on another host or something. You know where to find things that are important for you, at least you have found them once already
On the other hand there are "temporarely important" things, which you save you forget about them when they are not important anymore. If you try to manage all these data, you will lose too much time, and at the end of the day, you will have the same situation as before.
Don't lose you time trying systematically backup important data - let the disk crash do it for you.
And you'll save alot on tape drive/tapes aswell
Don't forget that if you are not interested in miles of forest and billions of mosquitos, then you better get to civilization,which is a bit more to the west.
;) Not to mention quality of services, no Internet... you better be sure you can handle it ;)
;)
Just to give you a figure, a train trip from Sahalin to Moscow area is about 14 days. If you want to get to Europe, like Spain for example, you will need something like a month...on a train... you will shoot yourself
Well, anyone else for the trip?
one cannot repeat this experiment in Cyprus ;)
;) ...and Internet costs a lot of money still... for a slow connection... which does not give you a chance of watching TV or listening to radio yet... ;)
:)
No matter who your sponsors are...
Noone has a website, noone knows what Internet is, noone wants to work, noone delivers pizza, while it is warm at least
If you have any chance not to come here - use it
I guess, people who post here about millenium beginning this year try to get moderator' interest on the reason why the count this way ;), so that he/she atleast give them "Interesting", which will greatly improve the karma which didn't go up since the beginning of millenium last year ;)
Anyway...
First of all perl is much older then php and is by far better tested and supported. The minimum php has to do is to port/support most of the CPAN (http://www.cpan.org) modules, which really help to provide fast and easy application development.
Secondly, why should one learn two different languages to do two different things? ;) Take for a example, standalone (data/system-maintainence scripts) and a web application. Why should I do web part in php and, say, db-to-files-dumping-from-cron in perl? Why should not I use perl for both? You may say that one can use php for those "standalone" scripts, but how convinient that is?
Thirdly, I have not seen any particular advantage of php that is not present in perl. Niether did I see anything which is easier in php. But that is subjective imho ;)
Perl is also easily run in both CGI mode and HTML embedded (http://perl.apache.org). Perl is installed on lot's of systems and it comes with the distributions of most UNIXes. There is even a popular perl interpreter for Windows (http://www.activestate.com/Products/ActivePerl/).
Anyway, php has no chances to make perl obsolete, since perl has million of other appliences except the web. And even to make perl obsolete for web development, php has a long road to go, though I am following the development a bit, and I like just having another alternative in the future ;)
Just let me paraphrase your saying and you will see yourself the lack of information that you give:
;)
i ng-puposes-piece-of-software in 10 lines? How many analogies of that "something" are there around? How many friends were their developing it? Etc.. ;)
;)
"Hello, we have heard that you know something about doing everything out of nothing. Me and my friends have developed something, which is actually nothing, and we would like to get at least anything in return. So, could you please help me with something to do anything not to get nothing out of it. TIA"
What have you developed? Is it a Beer-glass-and-coffee-mug-in-one magic driver for anything-that-has-anytype-connector? Or maybe it is a publishing-which-is-a-simple-writing-for-document
I hope I have made my point
I am still wondering why do people run behind new/high/top/super-puper techs like P4... It is expensive, buggy (actually it is not known for sure whether it is buggy or not ;)), it is poorely scalable, etc...
;) which is actually one per cluster/network or less.
;)
Instead, one could go the google way - take as many old computers as you need (486 or something), and use their beauty. Cheap, reliable when plenty, and even more interesting conecptually (networks, clusters, distributed systems, etc).
The drawbacks of course are obvious: space, noise and electricity charges. But if you take a closer look, it becomes even more interesting:
- space and noise (and heat/speed) can be fixed by something like "computer in the fridge", which I am sure everyone read about...
- electricity charges are not that high considering the number of monitors
As I have read somewhere not long ago, Google has now more then 6K Linux servers, with the most powerful one being a P133 or something... That is interesting
Well, actually there is a kind of attempt in RPM to save something. Ocasionally, the configuration files are backed up into filename.rpmsave, though I have not found any trend so far...
;)
...sometimes it works, sometimes it does not...that's life
CS is a computer science, MIS is a mixture of CS and business. I guess MIS should be those people-translators between businessmen and programmers/geek-likes ;)
Math, I guess, are problematic for everyone, though not as impossible to pass as accounting, management, and the like ;) CS, on the other hand, will give you a better base and concept knowledge.
The question that I think you should ask yourself is not whether you should take CS or MIS (CS of course), but where to do it. I've almost done the whole thing in the college, and I think it sux. So, I wonder, whether it could have been better if I did it in the university.
P.S.: you will not find an answer to your question here ;-)
I think there are two things that are important for a good UI:
;-P
1. Flexibility (I want it to look as I want it to look).
2. Defaults (great help for newbies, and a good time saver for others).
Additionally:
Speed is of course the issue aswell, but in most cases it is managable with a better hardware
The capabilities of both mouse and keyboard usage should be considered as important too.