Having never used ETrade before, I figured registration would be a simple matter of filling out an online form and wiring over some money and bam, account. -WRong-. You have to print and sign the application, mail it in and wait 3 to 5 days for it to be activated.
Let's do the math: Email received Tues. July 20th @ 5pm. Deadline, Wed. July 8th. Six business days.
One day to FedEx the application, up to five days to get the account registered. In a worst-case scenario you can barely make it (this assumes you happen to have $1000 lying around.) Of course, I didn't investigate opening an ETrade account until this weekend (that's my own damned fault) and realized I didn't have enough time to set up the account before the July 28th deadline.
So, between cursing, kicking and screaming at RedHat and ETrade I happened to look at ETrade's RedHat IPO page again... the deadline has been extended to Aug 4th! YAY! Anyone that was in my boat now has a second chance, go for it!
PS Of course, now I have to take back all the nasty things I said about RedHat.:)
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Hmmm, just about all my contributions to free software are to Perl and CPAN (I think I once submitted a bug report to RedHat about bash). All the CPAN developers I've spoken to so far have gotten it, too. So yes, they are rewarding people outside the -Linux- community... although one could say that without Perl, Linux would be pretty boring.:)
Anyhow, don't take it so cynically. Knowing a few people at RH, they're good people and probably just want to try and give a little back.
I, for one, will be scraping together money to grab a piece of this. I think we should make "I Got Rich On Free Software" t-shirts!:)
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Having never used ETrade before, I figured registration would be a simple matter of filling out an online form and wiring over some money and bam, account. -WRong-. You have to print and sign the application, mail it in and wait 3 to 5 days for it to be activated.
:)
Let's do the math: Email received Tues. July 20th @ 5pm. Deadline, Wed. July 8th. Six business days.
One day to FedEx the application, up to five days to get the account registered. In a worst-case scenario you can barely make it (this assumes you happen to have $1000 lying around.) Of course, I didn't investigate opening an ETrade account until this weekend (that's my own damned fault) and realized I didn't have enough time to set up the account before the July 28th deadline.
So, between cursing, kicking and screaming at RedHat and ETrade I happened to look at ETrade's RedHat IPO page again... the deadline has been extended to Aug 4th! YAY! Anyone that was in my boat now has a second chance, go for it!
PS Of course, now I have to take back all the nasty things I said about RedHat.
Hmmm, just about all my contributions to free software are to Perl and CPAN (I think I once submitted a bug report to RedHat about bash). All the CPAN developers I've spoken to so far have gotten it, too. So yes, they are rewarding people outside the -Linux- community... although one could say that without Perl, Linux would be pretty boring. :)
:)
Anyhow, don't take it so cynically. Knowing a few people at RH, they're good people and probably just want to try and give a little back.
I, for one, will be scraping together money to grab a piece of this. I think we should make "I Got Rich On Free Software" t-shirts!
Are you saying that ActivePerl thinking '.' and '..' are directories is a problem? Umm, they ARE directories!
..)'
;)
$ perl -v
This is perl, version 5.005_03 built for i686-linux
$ perl -wle 'print "Yes" unless grep {!-d} qw(.
Yes
Don't worry people, with shoddy programmers like this... he won't last very long!