Being in a similar situation, I'm considering to start doing consultant work. But can't seem to be able to find the handle on one thing: how to find the first few clients? I've been in the business for quite long now, know a lot of people and get regular job offers every now and then but consultant gigs just don't seem to come near. I'd appreciate if you'd share your experience;)
I've been flirting for a while with switching to Gizmo Project. Now there's a good reason to do it even if one has to persuade their contacts to make the switch too.
Problem is, security always adds some complexity to things (which means it's harder to use). In the PGP case, even if in quite a lot of email clients there are 'Sign' and 'Encrypt' buttons, authentication and encryption add complexity. Exchanging public keys, managing how you trust them and how you roll them over when they expire is not something my mother would want to do, she's happy to have memorized her credit card PIN code. Then there's the obligatory (secure) passphrase prompt popping up every time she sends an email. And what about the heart of all this; keeping her secret keys secret after the first secret key stealing worm gets released in the wild?
It's not the tools in general that are too complicated (some are indeed though), it's doing 'good' security itself.
It's probably not Zimmerman being greedy (you've got gnupg anyway).
They have excellent selections (playing mostly 'classical' jazz). Also used to stream over the net but that stopped a while ago... By the way, anyone knows what happened to that?
I absolutely agree with this list too, but think that John McLaughlin's works should not be missed either.
He's a guitarist from Scotland who have played with lots, lots of people (Miles Davis, for instance). Also, he used to be a founding member of the band called Mahavishnu Orchestra, which I wholehartedly recommend if you like extremely sharp compositions and playing and wild jazz-rock improvisations. Be careful with John's first albums though (from around '69), I got one of those which is so truely free jazz that I can't bear it despite my love of his music and even 'semi-moderate' free jazz:)
I became quite excited to try it. While being completely satisfied with the GNU environment, I'd *really* like to use a fast, straightforward development environment, such as Turbo C 2.0 (do you guys remember *that*?) I know several years passed by since then, but thought Kylix is getting closer and closer to something that makes sense just like their DOS based tools did.
I usually stop the installation of a "commercial" application when it fails to get RPM packages housed on my Debian (sid) system. I didn't stop now, backed perhaps by my respect of their good products (Delphi excluded).
Kylix's rpm based install tool failed, too (surprise!). I didn't stop tough, not even after hacking together a wrapper script around rpm (in order to get along the "failing" package dependencies (needless to say I have all neccessary libs/packages installed). I even tried to alienalize & install the provided rpm's -- no luck either (postinstall scripts still failing).
I still didn't give up at this point, had a look inside the package contents for another way to get around. After I've realized they contain wine libraries, all my interest & excitement suddenly disappeared. In fact, turned into massive disappointment.
The GNU toolbox works perfectly, there are excellent, graphical, native debugging tools too (DDD, for instance)... no fancy IDE, F9 shortcut, sure, but anyway... why should I bother?
Which brings us to the same old mantra about RedHat vs other distros. Not to mention the quality, resource footprint (yes, I've upgraded my box since the TC2 times:-)) and reliability of an app that's apparently been "ported" from Windows. For developing C++ applications on/for Linux.
Not for me, thanks. Am I the only one?
Now, if only Google would support regexp search...
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Next Generation Regexp
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...we could find everything we wanted, not only nearly everything we're looking for on the internet. Imagine the power of pattern matching (ie Perl compatible regexps) on Google's database!
Seriously, how hard do you guys think it would be to implement such a feature? I can't imagine they haven't played with the idea -- they've probably estimated the need for additional resources, and thrown it right away:-)
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Being in a similar situation, I'm considering to start doing consultant work. But can't seem to be able to find the handle on one thing: how to find the first few clients? I've been in the business for quite long now, know a lot of people and get regular job offers every now and then but consultant gigs just don't seem to come near. I'd appreciate if you'd share your experience ;)
I've been flirting for a while with switching to Gizmo Project. Now there's a good reason to do it even if one has to persuade their contacts to make the switch too.
http://www.gizmoproject.com/)
Problem is, security always adds some complexity to things (which means it's harder to use). In the PGP case, even if in quite a lot of email clients there are 'Sign' and 'Encrypt' buttons, authentication and encryption add complexity. Exchanging public keys, managing how you trust them and how you roll them over when they expire is not something my mother would want to do, she's happy to have memorized her credit card PIN code. Then there's the obligatory (secure) passphrase prompt popping up every time she sends an email. And what about the heart of all this; keeping her secret keys secret after the first secret key stealing worm gets released in the wild?
It's not the tools in general that are too complicated (some are indeed though), it's doing 'good' security itself.
It's probably not Zimmerman being greedy (you've got gnupg anyway).
As an iPaq 4150 owner, I'm looking forward to come to /. and see the headline:
Booting Linux on an iPaq 4150
Check out Jazz FM, the Canadian Jazz Station in Toronto:
http://jazz.fm
They have excellent selections (playing mostly 'classical' jazz). Also used to stream over the net but that stopped a while ago... By the way, anyone knows what happened to that?
I absolutely agree with this list too, but think that John McLaughlin's works should not be missed either.
:)
He's a guitarist from Scotland who have played with lots, lots of people (Miles Davis, for instance). Also, he used to be a founding member of the band called Mahavishnu Orchestra, which I wholehartedly recommend if you like extremely sharp compositions and playing and wild jazz-rock improvisations. Be careful with John's first albums though (from around '69), I got one of those which is so truely free jazz that I can't bear it despite my love of his music and even 'semi-moderate' free jazz
I became quite excited to try it. While being completely satisfied with the GNU environment, I'd *really* like to use a fast, straightforward development environment, such as Turbo C 2.0 (do you guys remember *that*?) I know several years passed by since then, but thought Kylix is getting closer and closer to something that makes sense just like their DOS based tools did.
:-)) and reliability of an app that's apparently been "ported" from Windows. For developing C++ applications on/for Linux.
I usually stop the installation of a "commercial" application when it fails to get RPM packages housed on my Debian (sid) system. I didn't stop now, backed perhaps by my respect of their good products (Delphi excluded).
Kylix's rpm based install tool failed, too (surprise!). I didn't stop tough, not even after hacking together a wrapper script around rpm (in order to get along the "failing" package dependencies (needless to say I have all neccessary libs/packages installed). I even tried to alienalize & install the provided rpm's -- no luck either (postinstall scripts still failing).
I still didn't give up at this point, had a look inside the package contents for another way to get around. After I've realized they contain wine libraries, all my interest & excitement suddenly disappeared. In fact, turned into massive disappointment.
The GNU toolbox works perfectly, there are excellent, graphical, native debugging tools too (DDD, for instance)... no fancy IDE, F9 shortcut, sure, but anyway... why should I bother?
Which brings us to the same old mantra about RedHat vs other distros. Not to mention the quality, resource footprint (yes, I've upgraded my box since the TC2 times
Not for me, thanks. Am I the only one?
...we could find everything we wanted, not only nearly everything we're looking for on the internet. Imagine the power of pattern matching (ie Perl compatible regexps) on Google's database!
:-)
Seriously, how hard do you guys think it would be to implement such a feature? I can't imagine they haven't played with the idea -- they've probably estimated the need for additional resources, and thrown it right away