With Sun, you've got a single throat to choke and we can respond instantly.
Wonder if by respond, they mean the response that I usually get from Sun: "That will be fixed in Solaris 12...and don't forget to renew your maintenance contract, it expires at the end of the month."
Ha ha ha...respond instantly my ass. I'll take the open source response to bug fixes any day.
Sure the ADA has some good effects. But it's also being used as a tool of extortion against small businesses. An attorney will team up with a disabled person (typically someone wheelchair bound) who will go into a business and find something that doesn't accomodate his disability. The attorney then slaps the business with an ADA suit. Under the ADA, the attorney can bill $275 the moment the suit is filed.
Not true. The ADA specifically excludes damages. The most someone can legally get out of an ADA suit is correction of the barrier. Nowhere in the ADA will you find that an "attorney can bill for $275". If your lawyer told you that, you need to find a new lawyer.
I accepted a counter-offer 3 years ago and I'm still happily employed. If you have received a counter-offer, I would take that as a good sign, your current employer realizes that you are valuable to the company and is willing to reduce their profit margin in order to keep you. Since accepting the counter offer, I've had some access to the salary info of my co-workers. I was shocked at what many of them were making. Some of the most talented folks were making considerably less money than they were worth. Management would without hesitation give them a raise if they asked, because they had made themselves critical to the projects they worked on. But, unlike me, they never asked.
The converse is also true. Best way for an employee who isn't valued by the company to get let go is to ask for more money. Be sure you know your situation before asking for a counter-offer.
Upon reading this article and doing some research on my own, I emailed a polite letter to the contacts at AdTI. The response I got back shows that they are pretty clueless about the whole thing and won't be able to back up their story with sound technical details. Try it, it's fun.
Anyone remember the Plato system. It was a computerized teaching system developed in the 1970's...that system used hyperlink-link technology to navigate through the various modules. It was cool...didn't last long at the school though, probably partially because I tried to hack in to it and screwed up the machine in the process. I remember me and my friends sneaking back in to school at the end of the day to turn the thing on and play with it...it was that neat.
Anyone have any documention as to when the system was developed?
Transfer your domain away from NSI as fast as you can.
NSI has to lose customers daily. Everyone I know that has dealt with NSI has transferred their domains. I'm in the process, I still have a few more to go. I tell everyone not to use NSI. I know many others that do the same.
Their incompetance can't last forever. If you value your domain, you'll transfer it to a company with sounder business practices.
My experience with gui tools is having to clean up after one of my programmers writes an application with them. Take a coder that doesn't know a language, add a gui design tool to the mix, and you've got yourself a mess. The latest incident involved some Java IDE...everything looks nice on the developers machine...but when the application was ported to the customer site, it became clear that the IDE used absolute spacing to place all the widgets. The differences in fonts between our development environment and the production environment made the application unusable. Every screen had to be reworked using proper layout managers.
I've banned IDEs for now...perhaps if my developers use a text editor to code they may actually learn something.
It amazes me that these people have had years to get the domain registration procedures down to a science, but they still can't seem to do anything right. I can't transfer my domain names away quick enough. They've overbilled me, then claimed that I still owe them more money (and threatened to take my domain name away if I didn't send even more money). They've refused to honor change requests to domains. Their accounting system is so screwed up they can't keep track of who has paid and who hasn't. And to complain to register.com about slamming!!! Please, these people are still trying to get me to pay for domains that have been transferred to register.com months ago. Their first line customer support is woefully incompetent...and trying to get through to anyone that can help correct their billing errors requires the patience of Job.
If anyone wants to investigate a company...it should be Verisign. These people have outright robbed me, and continue to try to rob me by sending me bills for services that they have no business sending me.
Yet during the last year, the U.S. economy has hit what could be regarded as its most substantial speed bump of the past two decades. Illustrated most starkly by the declining valuation of the NASDAQ, we?ve witnessed a notable decline in consumer confidence that has people wondering whether we?re at a brief respite or whether we?ve reached the end of an economic era.
Microsoft can talk about technology and innovation all they want, but keep in mind that this company still can't figure out the proper character code for a frickin apostrophe.
In a similar vain, this Zoom in to Europa is pretty cool. Europa is the satellite of Jupiter that may have have a liquid water ocean under its icy surface.
While I thought it was cool that I could track someone down, sites like AnyBirthday.com bother me because they reveal very personal information. (Oh yeah, you can opt out, but, only if you have access to the net and know about the site to begin with.)
I worked on a project years ago, while SGML was still a new standard. To sum things up, the goal of the project was to convert tons of technical documention to a standard format. Once the documentation was in this format, it could be presented using numerous rendering devices. Since all documenation was in a standard format, these devices could make sense of what they were reading and present the documentation in a way that made sense for the particular device. Life was good. However, what was a great idea snowballed into disaster as people tried to extend these SGML applications into things that made less and less sense. Hytime came along, it was going to fix everything. Ha!
Then CORBA came along, it was to be the answer to all the worlds problems. I admit I'm ignorant of CORBA, but it seems to me that is hasn't lived up to the hype.
Now we have XML. Again, XML seems great for what it is designed for, a standardized markup language (without some of the more silly features in SGML), but does XMLRPC make sense? Do we really need another standard? What does XMLRPC give us, other than buzzwords for managers to throw about?
I can hear my boss now, "Do your next project in XMLRPC, and mail me.doc files weekly to let me know the status."
I tried BeOS recently, but they didn't support the video card on my new laptop, or the video card on my not-so-new desktop. I'm sure I was not the only one in this situation. I would have loved to try BeOS, but I wasn't willing to buy a whole new system in order to try it.
I don't know what I was missing, but I really don't feel any sense of loss. To me, it's amazing the level of hardware support between open source linux and closed source BeOS. Good riddance.
NPR had an interesting story on Hanna on Morning Edition. Look for the story titled Classic Cartoonist Dies (4th story from the bottom of the page). It's in real audio format.
[NSA] coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information.
A security enhanced kernel is a good fit with their overall mission. A kernel with a backdoor does not fit well with this mission at all.
I'm not suggesting that these changes not be scrutizined, they should be looked at very carefully. Let's look and see what they have to offer before we make up our minds either way.
> To create a somewhat secure environment, good admins are required anyway. They don't need any funky GUIs, so why not pick one of the free Unices?
Good admins working for the US government more often than not quit civil service for higher paying jobs in the private sector. This leaves the not-so-good admins outnumbering the good ones. Combine that with a management that lacks technical knowledge and you have a recipe for disaster.
The agency I work for plans to go all Microsoft NT in fours years. Web servers, mail hubs, clients, everything.
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Wonder if by respond, they mean the response that I usually get from Sun: "That will be fixed in Solaris 12...and don't forget to renew your maintenance contract, it expires at the end of the month."
Ha ha ha...respond instantly my ass. I'll take the open source response to bug fixes any day.
Not true. The ADA specifically excludes damages. The most someone can legally get out of an ADA suit is correction of the barrier. Nowhere in the ADA will you find that an "attorney can bill for $275". If your lawyer told you that, you need to find a new lawyer.
The converse is also true. Best way for an employee who isn't valued by the company to get let go is to ask for more money. Be sure you know your situation before asking for a counter-offer.
Upon reading this article and doing some research on my own, I emailed a polite letter to the contacts at AdTI. The response I got back shows that they are pretty clueless about the whole thing and won't be able to back up their story with sound technical details. Try it, it's fun.
Anyone have any documention as to when the system was developed?
More reasons not to use NSI.
NSI has to lose customers daily. Everyone I know that has dealt with NSI has transferred their domains. I'm in the process, I still have a few more to go. I tell everyone not to use NSI. I know many others that do the same.
Their incompetance can't last forever. If you value your domain, you'll transfer it to a company with sounder business practices.
I've had good experiences with register.com.
Those patent guys used to use that system?
Bring some of those guys back...people reviewing patents these days need some training!
Sheesh!
I've banned IDEs for now...perhaps if my developers use a text editor to code they may actually learn something.
They did list Zork, but in my opinion they were missing Colossal Cave Adventure & Nethack.
If anyone wants to investigate a company...it should be Verisign. These people have outright robbed me, and continue to try to rob me by sending me bills for services that they have no business sending me.
telnet frontier.mudservices.com 7680
Microsoft can talk about technology and innovation all they want, but keep in mind that this company still can't figure out the proper character code for a frickin apostrophe.
In a similar vain, this Zoom in to Europa is pretty cool. Europa is the satellite of Jupiter that may have have a liquid water ocean under its icy surface.
AnyBirthday.com
Black Book Online (love that warning!)
While I thought it was cool that I could track someone down, sites like AnyBirthday.com bother me because they reveal very personal information. (Oh yeah, you can opt out, but, only if you have access to the net and know about the site to begin with.)
Then CORBA came along, it was to be the answer to all the worlds problems. I admit I'm ignorant of CORBA, but it seems to me that is hasn't lived up to the hype.
Now we have XML. Again, XML seems great for what it is designed for, a standardized markup language (without some of the more silly features in SGML), but does XMLRPC make sense? Do we really need another standard? What does XMLRPC give us, other than buzzwords for managers to throw about?
I can hear my boss now, "Do your next project in XMLRPC, and mail me .doc files weekly to let me know the status."
Someone please enlighten me.
I wonder what they mean by "commercial implementation of a Linux operating system".
I don't know what I was missing, but I really don't feel any sense of loss. To me, it's amazing the level of hardware support between open source linux and closed source BeOS. Good riddance.
NPR had an interesting story on Hanna on Morning Edition. Look for the story titled Classic Cartoonist Dies (4th story from the bottom of the page). It's in real audio format.
[NSA] coordinates, directs, and performs highly specialized activities to protect U.S. information systems and produce foreign intelligence information.
A security enhanced kernel is a good fit with their overall mission. A kernel with a backdoor does not fit well with this mission at all.
I'm not suggesting that these changes not be scrutizined, they should be looked at very carefully. Let's look and see what they have to offer before we make up our minds either way.
Good admins working for the US government more often than not quit civil service for higher paying jobs in the private sector. This leaves the not-so-good admins outnumbering the good ones. Combine that with a management that lacks technical knowledge and you have a recipe for disaster.
The agency I work for plans to go all Microsoft NT in fours years. Web servers, mail hubs, clients, everything.
I'm scared.